Just whole healthcare executive scaling health equity through field-defining business, policy and service integration strategy
Years ago many of us would not have put unions and physicians in the same sentence let alone rooms. I remember when we'd whisper, unsure of its legality but knowing the career consequences of even raising the idea among colleagues would be insurmountable. Today's increasing unionizing is telling of both a privileged position doctors once occupied in healthcare but no longer do amidst mega-corporations, as well as a direness of situation these earnest protectors feel healthcare is in where they can no longer tolerate the squeeze. It used to be we advocated for our patients and them only, whereby physician needs (and those of our families) were put a very far second. Some of us advocated for our staff and trainees second, with ourselves still a far third. I'd be rich if I had a dime every time colleagues scoffed as "corporate told us how to manage our patients,” as Dr. Frances Quee, president of the Doctors Council explains to The New York Times. “You know that’s not how you’re supposed to manage your patient, but you can’t say anything because you’re scared you’re going to be fired.” When healthcare is no longer safe for nurses, physicians, trainees, and pharmacists - psychologically, physically or financially - something's got to give. There are literally lives of patients and providers at stake, in ways unlike so many other industries. I for one am proud of those standing up, including and especially the residents who've been mistreated or abused in training from time immemorial. It's maintained by academic dogma few can justify. Hopefully unions in medicine can bend the corporatization of health systems toward something that increasingly resembles care. We'll probably know when physician suicide, substance use and burnout rates decrease for the very first time. #healthcare #burnoutprevention #suicideprevention #overdoseprevention https://lnkd.in/g6dgG66g
