Inspiring Growth and Leadership in Medical Careers: Transform Healthcare as a Physician Leader
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Physicians are the most trusted and dominant conduit for care and decision-making within the multidisciplinary sphere of healthcare. With increasing demands for quality care and patient satisfaction, the physician leader is well-positioned and deserves an equitable say in shaping the future of the healthcare industry.
This book supports Angood’s longtime assertion that all physicians are leaders. It is a collection of essays that detail personal experiences, observations of others, and lessons learned that paint a full picture of the roles that physicians play in society, the opportunities to maximize external expectations of leadership, and the strategies needed to fulfill personal career goals.
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The first section, Beginnings, explores the culture and communities of practice, kindness, and gratitude as food for the soul, and the only constant in life, which is change. Angood also discusses adversity, resilience, and persistence, as well as physician burnout and happiness.
The second section, Knowledge of Healthcare Environment, tackles the current state of healthcare, redefining the value equation with physicians as leaders, metrics, measurement, and patient safety reporting.
The third section, Professionalism, delves into trust, professionalism, altruism, forbearance, patient-centered care, caring, and compassion.
The fourth section, Communication and Relationship Management, emphasizes self-fulfilling prophecies, clarion calls, uncertainty, ambiguity, diversity, inclusion, and the value of volunteering.
The fifth section, Business Skills and Knowledge, talks about demographics, shifting models, crisis management, and catastrophes, and strategies surrounding collaboration with team members.
The sixth section, Leadership, asserts that all physicians are leaders, and that appreciation, humanism, humility, and physician leadership are essential in crisis and recovery.
The seventh section, Growth to Move Forward, explores work and life integration versus balance, complementary tensions, polarity, partisanship, ongoing progress, grief, human wellness, and ecology.
The final section, Conclusion, highlights the current state of affairs in engaged physician leadership.
This is a must-read for all physicians who want to reach their fullest potential and become more engaged while inspiring engagement in others. Creating a broader level of positive change in self and society is within each physician's reach.
About the author
Peter Angood, MD, is CEO and president of the American Association for Physician Leadership. Previously, Angood was the inaugural chief patient safety officer at The Joint Commission, patient safety adviser to the World Health Organization (WHO), senior adviser for patient safety at the National Quality Forum, and chief medical officer for the Patient Safety Organization of GE Healthcare. Prior to this, he enjoyed 25-years of academic trauma surgery practice ranging from McGill University in Canada to the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and Washington University in St. Louis. Angood completed his academic career as a full professor of surgery, anesthesia and emergency medicine. He remains actively involved with a variety of healthcare advisory groups, professional societies, has been president of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and is a well-recognized author and international speaker with 250 publications. His previous book, All Physicians Are Leaders, has been critically well received. The AAPL podcast, Inspired Healthcare Leaders with Peter Angood, MD, will debut in 2024.
Contents
- INTRODUCTION Physician Leadership — Always Being Watched
- SECTION ONE: BEGINNINGS
- 1. Culture and Communities of Practice in Changing Times
- 2. Kindness, Goodness, and Gratitude — Food for Our Spirits
- 3. The Only Constant Is Change
- 4. Adversity, Resilience, and Persistence
- 5. We Know About Physician Burnout; What About Physician Happiness?
- SECTION TWO: KNOWLEDGE OF HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT
- 6. Is Healthcare Upside Down?
- 7. Redefining a Value Equation with Physicians as Leaders
- 8. Metrics, Measurement, and Patient Safety Reporting
- 9. Safety, Transparency, and Physician Leadership
- SECTION THREE: PROFESSIONALISM
- 10. Trust: Professionalism, Altruism, Forbearance
- 11. Patient-Centered Care: Is It Really Disruption?
- 12. Caring and Compassion vs. Physician Compensation
- 13. Obliging Differences During Times of Pestilence
- 14. Physicians Meeting the Challenge of Contrasting Ideologies
- SECTION FOUR: COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
- 15. Self-Fulfilling Prophecies — There’s More to Them Than We Think
- 16. Clarion Call: Elective, Urgent, or Emergent?
- 17. Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and DiSC: A Contrast
- 18. Diversity, Inclusion, and the Physician’s Need to Give
- 19. The Value of Volunteering
- SECTION FIVE: BUSINESS SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
- 20. Demographics, Shifting Models, and Physician Leadership
- 21. Crisis Management and Catastrophes: Times for Learning?
- 22. Transitions and Transformations — Our Choice?
- 23. Moving Forward with Collaboration
- 24. Diversity and Inclusion: Tough Decisions, Rich Rewards
- SECTION SIX: LEADERSHIP
- 25. All Physicians are Leaders … at Some Level
- 26. Right-Side, Left-Side, Bi-Directional — Which Is Best for Physician Leadership?
- 27. Appreciation: Where Does It Lead?
- 28. Humanism, Humility, and Physician Leadership
- 29. Physician Leadership in Crisis and Recovery
- 30. We Need More Physicians Engaged with Leadership — Now!
- SECTION SEVEN: GROWTH TO MOVE FORWARD — ADDITIONAL AREAS FOR CONSIDERATION
- 31. Work and Life: Integration vs. Balance
- 32. Complementary Tensions: Desire, Ambition, Hope, and Longing
- 33. Polarity, Partisanship, and Ongoing Progress
- 34. Grief, Grieving, and Grievance — Growth to Move Forward
- 35. Medicine, Human Wellness, and Ecology?
- SECTION EIGHT: CONCLUSION
- 36. Engaged Physician Leadership: Current State of Affairs
