Progress Notes is PCP’s mostly guest-written blog. It’s a place to find positive, inspiring stories about primary care and leadership we might not see anywhere else. Interested in contributing? Contact us.
Progress Notes Blog
Introducing a New Chapter at PCP
Brian Souza has worked with healthcare non-profits for more than two decades. As PCP’s Chief Executive Officer, he brings his vision and expertise into PCP’s work of infusing Relational Leadership™ throughout primary care.
SAFE is a Movement to Treat Gun Violence For What It Is – A Public Health Epidemic
Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic (SAFE) transcends political allegiances and unifies the voices of healthcare providers calling for an end to firearm violence.
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.
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.
Unpacking New Orleans’ HIV Crisis: The Case for “Treatment as Prevention”
The underlying causes of New Orleans’ HIV crisis and how the “treatment as prevention” approach could help address the epidemic.
5 Tips to Start A Dialogue About Isolation
There’s a power in the act of breaking bread together that our society has long forgotten. Like the science of team-building, it takes work — and some hard-won wisdom.
Examining the Links Between Burnout and Trauma
Should the medical community start diagnosing and treating clinician burnout the same way as trauma?
Reflecting on the Research: How Do You Tell the Story of Burnout?
Within a few conversations, the enormity of our task was clear. To lend your voice to this powerful exploration of attitudes, challenges, and opportunities in primary care, contact us.
Moving from Thoughts and Prayers to Action
Are the challenges of our dysfunctional healthcare system grave enough — and the existential challenges to health professionals dire enough — to take action — not as individuals, but as a collective?
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.