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...
#FMRevolution = Family Medicine Revolution
Ah, change. Isn’t it lovely? With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) last year, much change has been afoot and most of it has been rapid and frantic change. Many stakeholders, from physicians to health plans and from patients to employers, are probably not entirely comfortable with the ground beneath them moving and so quickly (though I would argue that here in California, we’re...