Owning Your Role as a Physician Leader in Today's Healthcare

As influential citizens in society marked by our extensive medical education, we as pediatric pain physicians need to astutely assess the landscape of healthcare in the 21st century situation and adapt as professionals to embrace our true role and improve our service to our patients, institutions and the society.

 

We can do this by first acknowledging the situation and taking it as it is-- The changing expectations from HCPs with evolving definition of efficiency and efficacy with evolution of technology, and of how we relate or communicate with each other.  We must integrate and adapt to create a more inclusive, compassionate, yet value-packed process of healthcare delivery in pediatric pain medicine. It is only by acknowledging and embracing these changes that we can make progress as well.

 

Information is more readily available to our patients now, eliminating the status of physicians as the "the" source of medical care. We must remain as the most credible source of information and carefully guide them through this onslaught of unrefereed health information with kindness and compassion, helping them understand why what we prescribe for their situation is the optimal course.

 

I will share how there has been an evolution of the modern physicians’ role and why we must step up and claim the leadership role in pediatric healthcare-- particularly as a pediatric pain physician.

Takeaways in This Episode:

 

The roles a physician plays (or expected to play) Navigating situations that involve pediatric patients' pain The delicate balance of standardized vs. personalized care  Understanding and evaluating the influences of pain and its impact on healthcare Health information availability online and how they affect us as physicians How we deal with these new trends Our role as a pediatric pain physician in the context of non direct patient care. A recap of our new bigger roles in patient care

 

Links:

3 Areas every healthcare provider can influence Kids Are Not Small Adults Proactive Pain Solutions Pediatric Pain Physician's Academy Waitlist International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) ChildKind International Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine

 

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