Cummings K C
Physician Exec. 1988 Jul-Aug;14(4):6-8.
Among modern societies, the American culture is one of the most competitive. And within that culture, physicians are among the most success-oriented professionals. This is easy to understand, in that, for our patients, success is equated with well-being and continuance of life. This emphasis upon success is also finely honed in the physician executive. Commonly, our institutional goals revolve around providing a high-quality health care product in a cost-effective manner. For the physician executive, success is based largely upon the extent to which institutional goals have been attained or, in the present environment, if it has survived. But the actual ingredients for the physician executive's success will depend upon a variety of diverse factors, both personal and environmental.
在现代社会中，美国文化是竞争最为激烈的文化之一。在这种文化中，医生是最注重成功的职业群体之一。这很容易理解，因为对我们的患者来说，成功等同于幸福和生命的延续。这种对成功的强调在医生管理者身上也得到了很好的体现。通常，我们机构的目标是以具有成本效益的方式提供高质量的医疗保健服务。对于医生管理者来说，成功很大程度上取决于机构目标的实现程度，或者在当前环境下，取决于机构是否存续。但医生管理者成功的实际要素将取决于各种不同的因素，包括个人因素和环境因素。
