Walk a day in our shoes

Maybe the rift between administrators and physicians will narrow if hospital executives spent some time shadowing doctors and taking call.

I know that some executives (Harvard Pilgrim’s Charlie Baker comes to mind) have done that and spent days with physicians.

Once administrators get a taste of the obstacles facing doctors today, perhaps it will ground their proposals in some kind of reality.

Related posts:

1. Walk A Mile In My Shoes Prosthesis
2. Why doctors are reluctant to adopt electronic records
3. Recruiting versus retaining doctors
4. Are academic physicians the next target on the inflated executive salary hit list?
5. Physicians versus administrators
6. Anatomically correct shoes
7. Is moral distress preventing doctors and nurses from providing good patient care?

  Follow on Twitter   Subscribe

Tagged as: hospital