Medical Staff Development

Competition by specialists with hospital services can create friction, derail collaboration and has already passed the point of mission alignment. Competition is bred into our culture. It strengthens us and pushes us to higher quality, but at the cost of fractured relationships and duplication of services. With health care financing at the point of significant belt-tightening, neither the hospital nor the specialists can afford the battle. Much of the drive to compete is the spin-off of a spiritual battle raging within the competitors, the classic rift between pride and humility. Medical staff development, at its best, will address that very fundamental rift. It will be ready to take the time and make the personal effort. In the end it will be rewarded with a cohesive medical staff.