In the United States, we have one messed up medical system. Almost no one is denying that. From the patient’s perspective, it’s crazy-expensive, confusing, and too often, not as effective as it could be.
From the physician’s perspective, there are far too many barriers to providing efficient, quality medical care and many layers of costly and unnecessary bureaucracy.
What’s a doctor to do? Dr. James Turner, an anesthesiologist, author, and physician coach has spent much of the last year gathering data and his thoughts on the subject.
He’s had his own issues with burnout and has helped coach hundreds of other physicians via the Alpha Coaching Experience as they’ve navigated career challenges of their own.
He holds Costco up as an example of an organization that prioritizes people. They’ve long offered pay well above the minimum wage with generous benefits for their employees. They please customers with quality merchandise and a lenient return policy.
Twice in the book, Dr. Turner discusses a concept known as the arrival fallacy that is probably oh-so-familiar to you, even if you didn’t have a name for it before.