The lack of informed "followership" can make moot the effort of putative leaders. And such a fractured network of rudderless health care leads to avoidable poor outcomes for our patients..

Historically, leadership positions in medicine have been filled too often as a soft landing for an end-of-career doctor or by the only doctor willing to take the job and do the work. We need to recognize the need for trained leaders but we cannot stop there.

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One of the ongoing problems in health care is that there is no effective interaction between insurance companies and practicing physicians. None. At least, none at the policy level.

A number of factors have been pushing doctors to do things for patients that, absent such forces, we would not do.