Sharing My Dream — and a Bathroom, a Kitchen and a Living Room
This post originally appeared on the AAFP’s Leader Voices Blog on Friday, June 21, 2013. I recently had laser eye surgery, which means I no longer need glasses. Finally! It also should mean no more jokes comparing me to Harry Potter — unless people visit my apartment. Although J.K. Rowling’s bespectacled boy wizard had a bed in a tiny room under the stairs, my new bedroom is in a tiny room above the stairs. To be...
Clinical Practice: Leadership Practice
Greetings from San Francisco, where I am meeting with fellow California Academy of Family Physicians #FMRevolution-aries! Lately, I have been awash in thoughts about family medicine and leadership (blame it in part on my participation in the California HealthCare Foundation Health Care Leadership Program). We are, after all, at a historic juncture in redefining how to deliver health care to more people given that health care reform is...
Admiring a Pioneer in the FMRevolution
Posted from Kansas City, MO In spite of the whirlwind of excitement, status updates and tweets whilst chairing the AAFP National Conference of Special Constituencies (NCSC) here in Kansas City, it was important to take a deep breath and pause to admire Dr. G. Gayle Stephens as he delivered his plenary session on the evolution of family medicine in America from counterculture to revolution. It was not solely because he is an original...
Leadership From the NCSC
It has been said that the mere act of showing up is an act of leadership. That would be true for the vast majority of family docs who remain present for their patients and communities. However, I believe that the time is upon us for a paradigm shift. Merely showing up is not enough. I have been trying to wrap my mind around how family medicine and civic engagement, natural fits for one another when you think about it, sometimes mix...