Matthew Mazurek, MD, discusses his book Sexual Misconduct, Harassment, and Discrimination in Healthcare in an interview with Mike Sacopulos. The book explores systemic issues in healthcare, including power dynamics, gender biases, and the lack of sta...
Improve your public speaking with practical tips tailored for physicians. Learn how to engage your audience, deliver value, and leave a lasting impression with every presentation.
Celebrate your successes and reflect on your journey. Growth comes from appreciating achievements and learning from failures. Pause, honor your path, and move forward with purpose.
Today’s leaders face increasing pressure on all sides, and their stress levels are higher now than they were even at the peak of the pandemic. Though stress can sharpen performance briefly, over time it erodes judgment, narrows perspective, and incre...
Clinicians often hide behind a polished exterior while grappling with internal struggles. Shifting from "doer" to leader empowers clinicians to create lasting systemic change.
Sharon and Michael, a dual-physician couple married for over 40 years, reflect on balancing careers, family, and marriage. Their journey highlights mutual support, shared priorities, and resilience.
Physicians should begin job searches early, narrow top opportunities, and prioritize site visits to assess organizations. Prepare thoroughly, dress professionally, ask insightful questions, and communicate effectively.
MaryCay Durrant discusses physician leaders' burnout, linking it to their dedication and training. She shares her WORK resilience model—Wake up, Orient, Reimagine, Keep nourishing—emphasizing small, trust-based changes.
The article examines 65 years of changes in medicine from one physician's viewpoint, exploring advancements in technology, training, patient care, and bureaucracy, while emphasizing the need to preserve humanistic values in healthcare.
Although most people believe that they are self-aware, true self-awareness is a rare quality. In this piece, the author describes a recent large-scale investigation that shed light on some of the biggest roadblocks, myths, and truths about what self-...
When a leader creates friction, organizations default to a single explanation: the leader needs to change. In reality, that friction usually comes from one or a combination of four different sources—capability, perception, identity, or system. Becaus...