Clinical leadership: individual advancement, political authority, and a lack of direction?

摘要

‘Doctors and leadership: oil and water?’ asked Richard Smith, before he became editor of the BMJ. ‘Doctors have problems with leadership, both leading and being led,’ he pointed out, quoting Leadership Professor Warren Bennis: ‘leading doctors is like herding cats.’1 Only a few years ago, the question of whether doctors should be doing more to lead the NHS was still open to debate.2