The doctor crisis : how physicians can, and must, lead the way to better health care / Jack Cochran, MD and Charles Kenney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cochran, Jack, author.

Kenney, Charles, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health services administration--United States.

Health services administration.

Hospital-physician relations.

Patient-centered health care.

United States.

Health care reform--United States.

Health care reform.

Patient-centered health care--United States.

Medicine--Practice--United States.

Medicine.

Medicine--Practice.

Medical care--United States--Quality control.

Medical care.

Quality control.

Hospital-physician relations--United States.

Delivery of Health Care--organization & administration.

Burnout, Professional.

Health Care Reform--organization & administration.

Patient-Centered Care--organization & administration.

Physician's Role.

Practice Management, Medical--organization & administration.

Medical Subjects:

Delivery of Health Care--organization & administration.

United States.

Burnout, Professional.

Health Care Reform--organization & administration.

Patient-Centered Care--organization & administration.

Physician's Role.

Practice Management, Medical--organization & administration.

Physical Description:

xix, 216 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : PublicAffairs, [2014]

Summary:

"When Dr. Jack Cochran took over leadership of the Colorado Permanente Medical Group in the mid-1990s, he oversaw high-quality medical teams providing excellent care, but dealt with organizational troubles so deep rooted that patients and physicians fled in droves. In The Doctor Crisis, Cochran, now executive director of The Permanente Federation, and author Charles Kenney show how we can improve health care on a grass roots level, regardless of political policy disputes, by improving conditions for physicians and asking them to take on broader accountability. Doctors, they argue, are the key to making health care in the United States truly great, and we must do all we can to preserve and enhance the careers of physicians. They clarify the steps needed to take to support doctors so that they can focus on patient care, and offer concrete ideas for creating an environment and establishing systems that encourage doctors to put patients' needs above all else"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Miracles, Urgency: A Higher Calling 1

1 A Kind of Miracle: The Beauty of American Medicine 3

2 The Other Side of the Miracle: Failure Is Not an Option 15

3 Healer, Leader, Partner 29

Part II The Colorado Story: Firsthand Lessons for Preserving and Enhancing Physician Careers to Provide Superb Patient Care 45

4 Evolution of a Physician Leader 47

5 Jack's Constants: Preservation and Enhancement of Career 65

6 The Elephant in the Room 87

7 Turnaround 101

Part III Pathway Forward: Solving the Doctor Crisis, Expanding the Learning Coalition 111

8 Solving the Physician Crisis While Expanding the Learning Coalition: The Quadruple Aim 113

9 Learning Coalition: The Pathway Forward 137

10 The Urgent Need to Preserve and Enhance Physician Careers 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1610394437

OCLC:

865544005

Publisher Number:

99960234257