ISBN 978-1-923265-29-5
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Bush Clinics to Board Rooms
Transitioning to managerial roles
Doctors must have a high IQ to get into medicine. They have to prove their technical competence to graduate. However, having a high IQ and technical competence doesn’t translate into people management and leadership.
Dr Kay is one of the few doctors in Australia who has approached medicine with a commercial focus and has trained more specialists than most in the country.
Learn from his journey from a rural doctor to the board rooms of major organisations, changing the face of emergency medicine for the country.
About the Author
This story is written by Phil Kay, a boy who grew up poor on the coast.Wearing boardshorts, t-shirts, and no shoes for most of his life turned into suits and boardroom meetings after he qualified as an EmergencySpecialist and combined management with his career as a doctor.
Having opened Australia’s first private emergency centre at Pindara on the Gold Coast in 1987 he later set up his own company specialising in opening emergency centres around Australia and consulting with multiple private hospital operators in improving performance. He was director of ED in two of Australia’s major hospitals being GCH and PAH and was also involved in the early days of helicopter rescue and aero medical retrievals.
His key success feature is the rare combination of an being an experienced clinician with management skills at multiple levelsright up to major corporate board experience.
His experience with both patients and professionals is outlined in this book together with business experiences along the way.
Now retired after a very successful career, his book contains insights for any doctor embarking on a career, as well as his insights on business challenges aimed at executives and business people in organisations.
He shares his vast insights on people issues and problem solving and overcoming obstacles throughout the book.
Feedback from readers has been very positive. It’s an insightful read whether you are a medical professional, businessperson, or patient.