title: Seven lessons in medical management.
abstract: In more than 15 years of functioning as a medical director, addressing the needs and wants of patients, physicians, hospitals, and ancillary health care suppliers, I have accumulated pieces of ¿wisdom¿ that I now feel I should share with others in medical management. The concepts are fairly simple, but they are of significant value in the ¿real-life¿ management of people. The seven simple ideas outlined in this article are not meant to be the end-all to management philosophy. Books have been written about each idea, and there are hundreds of good ideas in many sources I do not touch on here. However, I have found these seven items of significant value in dealing with others and hope others find them similarly useful.
authors.affiliation: Qual-Med Health Plan, Albuquerque, NM 87110, USA.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Burton
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003657:Decision Making; D006040:Goals; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008486:Physician Executives; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000592:standards*; D011340:Problem Solving; D014481:United States