by Robert Pearl, M.D. | Dec 2, 2021 | All Blog Posts, Book Excerpts, Leadership, Lessons, Patient Stories
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by Robert Pearl, M.D. | Nov 15, 2021 | All Blog Posts, Leadership, Surveys
Throughout his presidential campaign and time in office, Joe Biden has made a lot of healthcare promises and outlined a wide variety of healthcare priorities for his administration. Anyone paying even the slightest attention to American politics knows Congress won’t...
by Robert Pearl, M.D. | Nov 9, 2021 | All Blog Posts, Events, Leadership, Lessons
“Change definitely will be happening. And change happening will be difficult.” That’s the message I delivered at the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this week. As this year’s keynote speaker, I promised those in...
by Robert Pearl, M.D. | Nov 1, 2021 | All Blog Posts, Events, Leadership, Lessons
Before I was a professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business or CEO at The Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser Permanente), I was a very proud, busy and highly satisfied plastic and reconstructive surgeon. Plastic surgery has for decades stood on the...
by Robert Pearl, M.D. | Oct 11, 2021 | All Blog Posts, Surveys
It is common, when going to the doctor with a medical problem, to imagine the worst-case scenario playing out. Last month, leading up to Halloween, subscribers of my Monthly Musings on American Healthcare were asked what scares them most as patients. Here are the...
