Reframing Contemporary Physician Leadership: We Started as Heroes Working With and Through Others Gag Orders Don’t Work Either

Gag Orders Don’t Work Either

The post-ACA environment focus on quality of care and efficiencies

Use techniques to improve both patient satisfaction and staff morale

Part I: Becoming the Doctor

Reframing Contemporary Physician Leadership: We Started as Heroes Working With and Through Others Gag Orders Don’t Work EitherGrace E. Terrell, MD, MMM, CPE, FACP, FACPE The practice of medicine, today, requires transformational skills. Healthcare challenges are no longer adequately addressed by the traditional paternalistic physician role. Healthcare must be physician led, but patient centered. Effective leadership must be collaborative rather than authoritarian, proactive rather than reactive. Most physicians work in environments where current cultural paradigms, such as