Gardenswartz L, Rowe A
Gardenswartz and Rowe, Los Angeles, CA.
Physician Exec. 1993 Nov-Dec;19(6):64-7.
"The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we are ready for it." While Arnold H. Glasgow did not have diversity in mind when he made this statement, his thought is relevant to that topic nevertheless. In fact, almost everything in the health care environment of the 1990s is fluid, making the future a question mark. Among these changes is the demographic composition of students entering medical school and of patients. Consider the following. While 14 percent of today's physicians are people of color, that number increases to 25 percent for current medical students. In the past 10 years, the number of female physicians has seen the largest percentage growth, followed by American Indians, Blacks, and Hispanics. Physician executives who have vision and energy can capitalize on this demographic revolution and convert diversity into a competitive advantage once its boundaries are understood.
“未来的问题在于，它往往在我们还没准备好的时候就已到来。”阿诺德·H·格拉斯哥说出这番话时，并未将多样性考虑在内，但他的观点与这一话题仍息息相关。事实上，20世纪90年代医疗环境中的几乎一切都处于变化之中，这使得未来充满了不确定性。这些变化之中，包括进入医学院的学生以及患者的人口构成。看看以下情况。如今，有色人种医生占医生总数的14%，而在当前的医学院学生中，这一比例增至25%。在过去10年里，女医生数量的增长比例最大，其次是美国印第安人、黑人和西班牙裔。有远见和活力的医生管理人员，一旦理解了这种人口结构变革的界限，就能利用它将多样性转化为竞争优势。
