Physician Voice

Listen to your peers discuss what keeps them motivated and strong in today’s litigious society.

Glenn Focht, MD

Using a philosophy of working locally to test improvements and then sharing lessons in “communities of learning,” Glenn Focht, MD and CMO of Pediatric Physician’s Organization at Children’s (PPOC), identifies and eliminates practice-specific gaps at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Physician Voice: Why and How Did You Become a Doctor?

Six Harvard physicians discuss their decision to go into medicine and the sometimes circuitous routes that got them there.

85 Practices Find A Safe Place to Share Patient Safety Stories

A “learning community” came together among the primary care practices affiliated with Boston Children’s Hospital. Now they all share cautionary tales and ideas for fixes that make everybody’s patients safer.

Going to a ‘Messy Place’ Together to Prevent Mistakes

Providers don’t need all the answers if they want to protect their patients from medical harm, just a willingness to focus on some unpleasant realities. Dr. Glenn Focht of Children’s Hospital has more than hope on his side.

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Gila Kriegel, MD Physician Voice: Dr. Gila Kriegel pursues patient safety, extending the impact of her work far beyond her patients.

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Gila Kriegel, MD

May 5, 2014

Before many of her colleagues really “got” what she was doing, Dr. Kriegel was trying to systematically make care better and safer for their patients too. Today this places her at the center of a data and dollar-driven movement to reduce preventable bad outcomes in ambulatory medicine.
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Lisa Ferzoco, MD Surgery, like gymnastics, feeds her love of efficiency and concrete goals

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Lisa Ferzoco, MD

December 19, 2012

The patient who has a hernia that's bothering him — I'm going to fix it. He's going to wake up in the morning and not have a hernia anymore.
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David Ting, MD
A doctor who looks for the nexus of skill, joy, and meaning.

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David Ting, MD

February 17, 2012

“If I didn’t have to worry about needing to document everything I do, I could switch that entire part of my brain toward being in the moment.”
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Wanda Gonzalez, MD I think the lawsuit probably took away some of the joy and put a little bit of fear in me.

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Wanda Gonzalez, MD

February 15, 2012

"I was still taking good care of my patients, but maybe in some ways my heart wasn’t completely in it."
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Physician Voice

Glenn Focht, MD

Physician Voice: Why and How Did You Become a Doctor?

85 Practices Find A Safe Place to Share Patient Safety Stories

Going to a ‘Messy Place’ Together to Prevent Mistakes

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Gila Kriegel, MD

Lisa Ferzoco, MD

David Ting, MD

Wanda Gonzalez, MD