Having physicians want to be within the mission of the hospital is critically important. Physicians make virtually all of the major decisions regarding the health care of individual patients. Those are decisions that alter treatment outcomes and institutional bottom lines. Physicians carry real authority to the hospital staff, the patients and their families. Because of the power of their authority they have the potential to deliver real healing. Physicians are trained to deliver cure and palliation but not particularly trained to deliver real healing.Patients want to be cured, but they long for real healing whether they can articulate that longing or not.
What do you see as the authority of physicians?
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