I Drank the Kool-Aid--and Learned 24 Key Management Lessons (Medical Management‪)‬

I left a full-time private pediatric gastroenterology practice officially 10 years ago. Slowly making the transition--first being a chief of staff, then taking a half-time job as a medical director of ambulatory clinics--I went into management as a full-time medical director of all ambulatory and outpatient services at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota in 1994. When a lot of us talk to our physician colleagues, we will say (kiddingly, of course) that we have "gone to the dark side." That's because most of our medical peers feel that once you have gone into management, you are truly not a doctor any longer--you drank from the Kool-Aid.