Healer Leader Partner: Optimizing Physician Leadership to Transform Healthcare

Physicians undertake a noble demanding profession improving patients lives. But the rapidly changing world of healthcare and the complex knowledge and technology involved challenges this calling. Physicians need to be healers confidants and caregivers while developing skills as leaders and partners. This indispensable guide provides practical actionable learning to help physicians become effective compassionate and confident leaders transforming healthcare into what patients want need and deserve.Says Dr. Cochran: When I became a surgeon I had four years of medical school six years of residency training and a rigorous certification process to verify my competence. When I became a leader in the business of medicine most of my training was on the job just in time and trial and error which is a very different journey.In this book Dr. Cochran draws on his own path focusing on essential skills for effective leadership to provide in-depth examinations of critical topics including communication leading change managing performance through culture and relentless personal development.Dr. Jack Cochran is a Stanford-trained surgeon and served as executive director (CEO) of the Permanente Federation at Kaiser Permanente from 2007 until 2015. He is also the coauthor with Charles Kenney of The Doctor Crisis: How Physicians Can and Must Lead the Way to Better Health Care.