Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The bias against physicians leading health IT
Health Care Renewal: "I believe this and related stereotypes about physicians are a driver and an enabler (either through genuine belief or through disingenuous opportunism) of much that ails medicine today through the interference of non-medical outsiders. The fundamental message is that physicians are children who cannot do anything more than medicine, and require 'a village' of paternalistic non-medical outsiders to manage their affairs."
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My comment is on the bigger question of physicians branching out into other areas outside of medicine. There is a bias that physicians are narrow minded and uneducated except when it comes to medicine. Physicians are talented life long learners. It is imperative that physicians be directly involved in IT and any other intitiatives that affects their ability to practice medicine. Physicians are smart enough and capable enough to acquire additonal skills to lead IT and other initiatives. If we don't venture into these arenas, including learning and applying business skills, we will be no more than technicians.
We physicians must step up to the plate individually and collectively to challenge the stereotypes that we are incapable of understanding, acting, and being successful in any area we choose to be involved in IT, business, consulting, writing etc.
lori@physiciansuccessunlimited.com
We physicians must step up to the plate individually and collectively to challenge the stereotypes that we are incapable of understanding, acting, and being successful in any area we choose to be involved in IT, business, consulting, writing etc.
lori@physiciansuccessunlimited.com
Physicians narrow?
Aristotle, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, William Carlos Williams, Robert Coles, Deepak Chopra, Anton Chekov,Michael Crichton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Walker Percy, Lewis Thomas, Oliver Sacks, Theodore Dalrmple narrow?
And how many of the people in IT making that assertion even know the the "Father of the Personal Computer" is a Georgia physician, Dr. Ed Roberts. Throw that at the next IT guy who is condescending towards you--I'll bet he doesn't know!
I believe that Dr. Roberts is practicing in a small town in Georgia. I don't know if he has an EMR. Bill Gates first worked for him.
Aristotle, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, William Carlos Williams, Robert Coles, Deepak Chopra, Anton Chekov,Michael Crichton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Walker Percy, Lewis Thomas, Oliver Sacks, Theodore Dalrmple narrow?
And how many of the people in IT making that assertion even know the the "Father of the Personal Computer" is a Georgia physician, Dr. Ed Roberts. Throw that at the next IT guy who is condescending towards you--I'll bet he doesn't know!
I believe that Dr. Roberts is practicing in a small town in Georgia. I don't know if he has an EMR. Bill Gates first worked for him.
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IT is absolutely full of people who have no IT training whatsoever. Bill Gates has no IT training. The three most successful people I know in the IT business--one retired rich and one the others still running his company but wealthy, are completely self-taught.
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