The Anatomy and Physiology of the Healthcare System with Dr. Jonathan Burroughs

Jonathan Burroughs is President and CEO of The Burroughs Healthcare Consulting Network, Inc. He works with some of the nation’s top healthcare consulting organizations to provide ‘best practice’ solutions and training to healthcare organizations throughout the country.

Dr. Burroughs serves on the national faculty of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the American Association for Physician Leadership, where he has been consistently rated as one of their top speakers and educators.

He is the author or coauthor of many books on healthcare leadership including, Redesign the Medical Staff Model - A Collaborative Approach, which was the winner of the 2016 James A. Hamilton Award for Outstanding Healthcare Management Book of the year.

Dr. Burroughs received his bachelor’s degree at Johns Hopkins University, his MD from Case Western Reserve University, and a healthcare MBA with honors from the Isenberg School of Management.

We hope you enjoy our conversation where we talked about knowing yourself, the importance of physician healthcare executives, and following the money in medicine. 

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Questions we asked included: 

• How did you develop your leadership philosophy? 
• Tell us about Burroughs consulting? 
• How do we follow the money in medicine? 
• How do trainees learn the business of medicine? 

Our favorite quotes: 

• “Learn from every single patient. That’s why they call it the practice of medicine” 
• “Look in the mirror and see who you are… then exploit the strengths and minimize the weaknesses.”
• “If you don’t learn the business, you are going to be delegated to the assembly line.” 
• “Doctors who only know how to diagnose and treat patients will be treated as a commodity in the coming century.” 
• “He or she who controls the money, controls the system.” 

Book Suggestions: 

• French’s Differential Diagnosis 
• Introduction to Healthcare Finance by Carlene Harrison and William P. Harrison
• Essential Operational Components for High Performing Healthcare Enterprises by Don Burroughs  
• The Innovator's Prescription by Clayton Christensen and Jason Hwang