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In the latest version, Lessons Learned: Stories from Women Physician Leaders, I followed the same format as the two previous versions: I asked each contributor to tell their own story, which I edited as needed. Because I had worked with many physician leaders in my role as an executive search consul...

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Published in:Physician leadership journal 2023, Vol.10 (4), p.42-44
Main Author: Shlian, Deborah M
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Careers
Clinical medicine
Electricity distribution
Environmental quality
Executives
Families & family life
Hospitals
Lead content
Leadership
Medicine
Personal profiles
Physicians
Press conferences
Public health
Women
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Summary:In the latest version, Lessons Learned: Stories from Women Physician Leaders, I followed the same format as the two previous versions: I asked each contributor to tell their own story, which I edited as needed. Because I had worked with many physician leaders in my role as an executive search consultant, I was able to choose representative women for the book. When she heard about the possibility of lead in the water, she began a research study using data available in electronic medical records and found an unacceptably high level of lead in the blood of Flint children. Because of the public health implications, she revealed her findings publicly and advocated for action at a press conference in 2015 before her research was scientifically peer reviewed. Later, at a press conference in which the State of Michigan acknowledged the lead-in-water crisis, Department of Environmental Quality officials apologized to her. [...]she spent her young years in Nigeria living in a remote Igbo village while a civil war was raging.
ISSN:2374-4030