My work in coaching physicians lives at the interface of what they know—getting it right—and what they often don’t realize, that being an effective executive leader requires additional skills and moving from linear to complex thinking.
Dr. Margaret Cary is President of The Cary Group, an executive coaching, training, facilitation and public speaking firm. She started her professional career as a family physician in Santa Rosa and has moved through nearly every facet of health care – private practice; emergency department management; turn-around expert for an occupational medicine clinic; television program developer and co-host; senior executive in President Clinton’s administration; envisioner, developer and Director of Community of Champions, the national physician leadership development initiative in the Veterans Health Administration; medical director of a $200M medical communications company; employee #6 in a medical device startup and author of Telemedicine and Telehealth: Principles, Policies, Performance and Pitfalls. She is a credentialed and certified leadership coach (PCC), a member of the National Speakers Association and of the International Women’s Forum. She is a faculty member at Georgetown and George Washington universities’ medical schools. She combines her understanding of the critical importance of effective communication, emotional intelligence and leadership and management skills in physician leadership development with practical knowledge of how organizations work. As an executive coach for physicians, Dr. Cary’s clients value her honesty, insight, evidence-based approach, understanding of the challenges in being a physician and ability to help them understand their strengths and how to use them in increasing their management and leadership effectiveness. Dr. Cary adds to healthcare’s improvement one physician at a time.
My work in coaching physicians lives at the interface of what they know—getting it right—and what they often don’t realize, that being an effective executive leader requires additional skills and moving from linear to complex thinking.
With a coaching approach, we stay curious and calm, ask questions and actively listen.
I’ll highlight a few of the troubles common to physicians based on our professional culture – as well as a few of the methods I’ve found especially effective in working with other physicians because of our culture.
What is it about physicians? The stereotype of the brilliant and bold surgeon who reigns over the operating room whose mantra is “A chance to cut is a chance to cure.” The ever-smiling pediatrician wearing a bowtie with small elephant on his stethoscope. And the pipe-smoking psychiatrist, steeped in Freud and saying little. None of whom listens to anyone without …
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