All Physicians Lead
Redefining Physician Leadership for Better Patient Outcomes
by Leon Moores
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Pub Date Feb 20 2024 | Archive Date Feb 20 2024
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Description
Leadership is an integral part of what doctors do.
All physicians lead, not just those with “official” leadership titles, such as CMO or Chief of Surgery. If leadership can be defined as influencing thought and behavior to achieve desired results, then clearly it isn’t something physicians work toward only as a later career goal. Leadership is a skill set physicians practice every day. Whether persuading a patient to stop smoking, a lab to return speedy results, or a surgical team to understand what needs to happen in the OR, physicians lead. Leadership is baked into the job.
In fact, we already look to physicians as leaders. We expect them to make critical healthcare decisions, inspire treatment teams, influence patients’ behaviors, communicate impeccably, and be exemplars of professional conduct. Few roles in society carry more built-in leadership expectations than that of physician.
And yet, most physicians receive little focused training in leadership. While clinical skills are drilled into every physician-in-training for years, leadership skills are left largely to chance. All Physicians Lead seeks to change that. Primarily aimed at physicians, it offers an intro course in physician-leadership, using a “concentric circles” model: As a physician, progressing from learning to lead yourself, to leading other individuals, to leading teams, and finally, to leading organizations, can improve healthcare team performance and patient outcomes. Fundamentally, self-awareness underpins every stage of leadership.
The book also speaks to those in charge of medical schools, healthcare organizations, and physicians’ professional associations, arguing that leadership should be considered a core competency throughout every doctor’s career and structured education in leadership fundamentals should begin the first day as a medical student. Better physician leadership results in higher-performing healthcare teams, improved patient satisfaction, and better health outcomes for patients.
Authored by a prominent neurosurgeon and seasoned healthcare leader who literally “wrote the book” on physician leadership for the U.S. Army, All Physicians Lead is more than a book title, it is a rallying cry for change.
Advance Praise
"Emphasizing accountability, consistency, professionalism, and other key characteristics of leadership, Moore explores, with clarify and inviting pros, how embracing such qualities results in better health care."
BookLife by Publishers Weekly
Editor's Pick, December 2023
"All Physicians Lead is a persuasive career guide that argues for improving physicians' leadership training."
Foreword Reviews
"[...] a canny, warmly encouraging guide to improving health care management and relationships."
Kirkus Reviews
"This is a complete handbook to learn the requirements of a good leader that will help you begin your leadership journey."
Readers' Favorite
“Fascinating. In All Physicians Lead, Dr. Leon Moores refutes the concept that the surgeon operating on you is simply a highly skilled technician. The West Point graduate and paratrooper-turned-medical-doctor argues persuasively that physicians must be effective leaders who shape our healthcare experience on almost every level, and that our institutions must reflect this requirement. More than a leadership handbook, it is an invaluable roadmap.”
— STAN MCCHRYSTAL, CEO and chairman, The McChrystal Group; Best-selling author, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement in a Complex World
"All Physicians Lead is a must read for every medical student, young and mid-career physician, and medical educator. It is a reference for self-improvement, advanced curriculum development and ensuring physicians are prepared for the future to lead in increasingly complex times. Dr. Moores draws on his lifelong experience as a military officer and physician leader to define the essentials of physician leadership development that is important in driving positive change in healthcare. Dr. Moores shows how great physicians lead with vision and purpose, helping organizations pivot and remain competitive and relevant to the future. All Physicians Lead will be a trusted reference which readers will return to often."
— JONATHAN WOODSON, MD, MSS, FACS
“A refreshingly practical and well-written book with the powerful ideas that all physicians are leaders, that leadership can be taught, and that better physician leadership produces better patient outcomes. All Physicians Lead should be incorporated into every medical curriculum. Dr. Moores’ insightful work reflects the synthesis of his impactful careers as a physician and as a military leader in this must-read book.”
— JAMES K. STOLLER, M.D., M.S., Professor and chairman of the Education Institute at Cleveland Clinic; Author, Better Humans, Better Performance
“In All Physicians Lead, Dr. Leon Moores delivers a revelation I wish I had encountered on my very first day of medical school. With captivating insights drawn from his military and medical backgrounds, Dr. Moores masterfully portrays every physician as a leader, regardless of their formal role. All Physicians Lead is a catalyst for personal and professional growth that leaves a mark on our medical practice and the lives we touch.”
— J. STEPHEN JONES, MD, FACS, President and CEO, Inova Health System
“I urge you to read All Physicians Lead and allow its timeless wisdom and eminent practicality to seep into your mindset. Leon Moores writes with the voice of an authentic and accomplished practitioner. The most compelling aspect of this seminal work is not simply that Leon can articulate these principles, it is that he lives these principles. It is said the measure of integrity is how one acts in adversity, and I can assure you Leon Moores has faced every adverse situation imaginable and led himself and others through those moments with dignity, grace, and resolve. All Physicians Lead is not the latest output from think-tank academics or once-removed consultants, it is the accounting of indelible truths from one who honored them by living them.”
— DANIEL J. PORTER, Executive Coach; Best-selling author
“Physician leaders are needed around the world more than ever. All Physicians Lead shows every physician how to be a better leader every day and is a must-read for them and for the health systems that employ them.”
— AMANDA GOODALL, Professor of leadership, Bayes Business School London; Author, Credible: The power of expert leaders
“This book is a must-read for any physician looking to elevate how they show up as a leader. Dr. Moores offers a timely and practical guide for navigating a new vision for leadership, one that is wholehearted, empathetic, and inclusive. The health care industry has no shortage of challenges and opportunities, and a new cadre of physician leaders is critical to the transformation.”
— RENEE DESILVA, CEO, The Health Management Academy
“Dr. Moores is to be congratulated on a unique concept of physician leadership. It is brilliant because it is simple, logical, and inspirational. As a physician and soldier, you will admire that he has taken the most egalitarian route imaginable towards leadership. Dr. Moores beautifully inspires us with the observation that we all lead with our patients. He demonstrates how each of us can do the same with our organizations and health care system. And, I am convinced that Dr. Moores’ concept can be practically extended beyond the physician job description. I cannot think of a more hopeful and practical solution, to the leadership challenges that face us in medicine.”
— RICHARD G. ELLENBOGEN, MD, FACS, Professor and chairman of neurological surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine; Theodore S. Roberts endowed chair in neurological surgery; Chief of pediatric neurological surgery, Seattle Children’s Hospital
“Leon Moores has crafted an excellent book on physician leadership that makes an important contribution to healthcare. His major premise is that it is just as important for a physician to influence treatment teams to achieve desired results as it is for a physician to have good clinical skills. He notes that good leadership should be exercised by all physicians regardless of their formal title. All Physicians Lead is well written and is as enjoyable to read as it is impactful. It should be a must-read by clinicians committed to improving medical practice and health outcomes.”
— S. ROBERT HERNANDEZ, Dr.P.H., Distinguished service professor and director, Executive Doctoral Program in Healthcare Leadership, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“All physicians are leaders, right? After all, they make decisions directing others—staff, patients, payers, and the like—to do various activities. So what’s the problem? As Dr. Leon Moores describes in his book, All Physicians Lead, the premise is correct, but, while physicians may be leaders, many do not realize it and even fewer are trained in it. Dr. Moores convincingly argues that making leadership training an integral part of medical education will result in better decisions, more effective teams, and ultimately higher quality patient care!"
— RONALD R. BLANCK, DO, MACP, Former lieutenant general, US Army; Former Army Surgeon General
“Leon Moores’ book, All Physicians Lead, is an excellent reference for leadership education for physicians. Making the points that all physicians are leaders, leadership is a learned skill, improving physicians’ leadership skills makes healthcare function more robustly and efficiently, and perhaps most importantly, the chief beneficiary will be the patients, Moores offers leadership education in a very practical and straightforward way. In today’s world of rapidly changing healthcare delivery physicians must recognize their leadership role and improve these skills. Given the legislative and judicial challenges to the principles of evidence-based care and the challenges to the sanctity of the physician/patient relationship, physicians must provide leadership to our communities. Physicians must accept their personal social responsibility in leading in these issues of importance.”
— JOHN STUDDARD, MD, FCCP
“Leon Moores’ unique combination of leadership training and experience provides him with the ability to clearly communicate a proven path for physician leadership development at all organizational levels. His new book is concise and easy to follow, using examples and vignettes to convey his message. A must-read for all physicians on their journey to becoming tomorrow’s healthcare leaders.”
— NANCY BORKOWSKI, DBA, CPA, FACHE, FHFMA, Distinguished professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"In All Physicians Lead our colleague Leon Moores has highlighted an opportunity that is so crucial for today's physicians. In convincing language, Leon shows how every physician leads every day and how recognizing and reflecting on that can improve patient health. His passion for this subject and his personal experience combine to give us a valuable resource for these key issues. I trust in him and all he has to offer with education in physician leadership, and I wholeheartedly commend his work to you."
— DOREEN J. ADDRIZZO-HARRIS, MD, FCCP, Professor of Medicine, Associate Director, Clinical and Academic Affairs, NYU Grossman School of Medicine 2023 President, American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST)
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 255544
I received a copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley and this review was written by my husband, a physician who leads:
As a Physician Leader in the latter stages of his career, I was pleased to read and review this book. The premise is a good one, that all Physicians find themselves as leaders throughout their careers, either by default through their medical practice or by taking on administrative leadership roles in their in institutions of work. As the author points out quite correctly, leadership skills are something that can and should be taught early in a physician’s training. This therefore, is a book I wish I had read at medical school or shortly after graduating.
Aside from the military and surgical spin which runs through the book and proved mildly distracting (the author after all served in the armed forces), the content is well structured, first starting with the “Why” of physician leadership before introducing a neat visual of the concentric circles of leadership with “self”at the centre, expanding outwards to incorporate leading another, leading teams and then organizations. Towards the end, the author gives more practical strategies for physician leaders which nicely rounds out the book.
Although I found little new or enlightening content in the book personally, I am conscious that the book was not aimed at me, an experienced physician leader of many years. I imagine that a new medical school graduate or a physician suddenly thrust into a new leadership role would find many more “light bulb” moments here. This, along with the sound structure of the book’s content and the useful real-life scenario illustrations that start each chapter, pace the reader well through the content and makes for an overall enjoyable and informative read. I shall be recommending this book to the medical students I encounter in my workplace and not just the ones that are interested in leadership. Congratulations should go to the author Dr. Moores for writing a book that fills an important gap in medical student education and for writing a book which I wish I had read 30 years ago.
Reviewer 1288440
Well written with leadership points clearly outlined. I think the comparison to the military and their training is cohesively displayed. These points could be used all aspects of leadership training not just physicians. Advanced practice providers could benefit greatly from leadership discussion in a collaborative manor.
Frankie E, Reviewer
Interesting and insightful read. Subject matter attracted me to read this book, Subject content was thoughtfully explored and well written.
Francis T, Reviewer
Leon Moores is a distinguished vet who spend his military career in medicine.
The military trains leaders.
Medical schools do not.
He's trying to change that.
The change is already happening.
Whether you're premed or you have 20 years of experience, reading this book will be useful.
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