Health Care in America, "Getting it Done" with Dr. Kenneth Cohn
My guest is Dr. Kenneth Cohn, co-editor of “Getting it Done,” an American medical account of how doctors working together can bring clinical and financial success while bringing better and more meaningful care to their patients.
Dr. Cohn describes himself as a recovering academic surgeon. A sign in his office that reads, “It’s never too late to change what you want to be when you grow up.” His current passion is helping physicians, nurses, and hospital leaders work more interdependently to improve performance.
He is a board-certified general surgeon who obtained his M.D. degree from Columbia College of Physicians Medical School and completed his residency at the Harvard-Deaconess Surgical Service. He was Assistant Professor of Surgery at SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn and later moved to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center as Associate Professor of Surgery and Chief of Surgical Oncology at the VA Hospital at White River Junction.
With the change in the medical economic climate, Dr. Cohn entered the MBA program of the Tuck School at Dartmouth and graduated June 1998. He worked initially as a consultant at Health Advances, assisting 6 firms to commercialize new products. After joining the Cambridge Management Group in 1999, he led change-management initiatives for physicians at affiliated hospitals within the Yale New Haven, Banner Colorado, Cottage Santa Barbara, and Sutter Sacramento Health Systems.
In 2006, Dr. Cohn founded Healthcare Collaboration to leverage the Internet to improve his service. Dr. Cohn remains clinically active, covering surgical practices in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. He has been mentoring physicians in leadership development since 1999, finding that physicians enjoy learning from fellow physicians.
Dr. Cohn’s writing experience includes over 45 published articles in peer-reviewed healthcare journals. His article, “The Tectonic Plates Are Shifting: Cultural Change vs. Mural Dyslexia,” won the Dean Conley Award in 2009 from the American College of Healthcare Executives for the best article in a healthcare management publication.
He has written or edited four books, The Business of Medicine (Praeger), Better Communication for Better Care, Collaborate for Success!, and Getting It Done published by Health Administration Press, 2005, 2006, and 2011. For more information on Getting It Done, please click on gettingitdonebook.com. He blogs on topics related to healthcare collaboration at healthcarecollaboration.com/blog and on topics relating to disgruntled doctors and physician entrepreneurship at http://thedoctorpreneur.com.
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