Teamwork has become crucial in contemporary healthcare and the reasons are multiple. Clinical care is becoming more complex and specialized, forcing medical staffs to attempt complicated health services and quickly learn new methods.
Aging populations, the increase of chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer and heart disease have forced medical staffs to take a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare. In countries like the United States, medical teams must manage patients suffering from multiple health problems.1
a Collaborative approach in healthcare
The deliberate fostering of positive attitudes and good relationships within care teams needs to become an institutional priority on par with the other measures of medical excellence for which organizations strive.
And just as with those other measures, “good enough” isn’t good enough! It pays real dividends to maintain the highest standards, to be proactive and to constantly strive to do better in areas that are sometimes misnamed
the “soft skills.”
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