We Need More Connection, Community, and Vulnerability
Connection and vulnerability builds teams. We need to keep making the case in a way healthcare’s leaders can understand, with the hard data to get their attention.
Interprofessionalism/team-based care
3 Leadership Lessons I Learned at the Gregg Stracks Leadership Summit
Kimberly Lin, an M.D. Candidate, Class of 2020 at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, shares how the Summit teaches students to become leaders that can unite all members of a team under a common vision and passion to achieve large-scale, effective change.
Prabhjot Singh: America’s Neighborhoods are the Future of Healthcare
On PCP’s Relational Rounds podcast, Dr. Singh shares what makes a great community health worker, advice for young physicians on the growing crisis of burnout, and why healthcare should be viewed as a social movement.
Activist Ai-jen Poo Shares Stories from the Frontlines — and in the Shadows — of Domestic Care
Ai-jen Poo speaks on the imperative of building a home healthcare workforce and what primary care professionals can do to be a part of the movement.
When Care Coordination Saves Lives
Care coordinators remain present for our most vulnerable patients, sometimes answering the most important calls that can make all the difference.
Dr. Andrew Morris-Singer on Building a Primary Care Community
On the first episode of PCP’s Relational Rounds podcast, Dr. Morris-Singer shares the story of PCP, his research on the role of community in primary care, and why healthcare needs to prioritize team-based care.
The Hidden Work of Primary Care
I sat at my desk astonished after her exit. By all current billing standards, I had done nothing. I had spent no more than fifteen minutes with Alice and had done nothing more than explain in layman’s terms what had taken place in her recent ER visit.
Some Lessons for Medicine from a Career in Communications
Our nation’s medical and scientific communities are powerful, essential – and misunderstood. And that misunderstanding fuels a lot of missed opportunities for us lay folks to support your work. So from Mark Twain to Game of Thrones, here’s some hard-won wisdom for communicating your craft.
Leading the Transformation of Primary Care
On days when it seems the paperwork and mouse clicks are endless, it is difficult to appreciate the changes we are seeing in primary care. There are still significant bureaucratic and financial barriers between physicians and their relationships with patients, but things are starting to change.
Gregg Stracks: The Heart of Leadership
Please join me in reflecting on our collective luck at being a part of a network and movement connected to such an amazing person as Gregg Stracks, who gave so much of himself, at such a difficult time. Let’s commit to using PCP’s Gregg Stracks Leadership Summit to reconnect with the values that brought us into primary care.