Gay Teurman, Psy.D. and William Bergquist, Ph.D. The emerging field of health-based coaching has mostly focused on strategies associated with empowering individuals to make lasting health behavior changes.  These changes are the cornerstone in defining a sense of well-being. As in most emerging fields of human service, health-based coaching practices are highly diverse with regard […]

Jeremy Fish, MD Jeremy is a Family Medicine Specialist practicing in the State of California with over 31 years of experience in the medical field. Dr. Fish serves as program director and co-founder of the John Muir Family Medicine Residency Program. He was the California Association of Family Physician’s 2020 Family Physician of the Year. […]

Hardly able to see straight, Dr. Monique Waznicki flops into an empty chair behind the main desk in the Special Care Nursery. She scans The Board and decides that the nurses can hold things together while she chases down a consult call she has into a cardiac specialist.  And maybe she can get a coffee […]

Can there be any doubt that our health care systems in North America are in the process of breaking down?  An amazing array of pressures is pushing the systems past the mere overhaul stage into major transformations—into something new and different. We need our systems to change. Too many people are not receiving the care […]

Jeremy Fish, M.D. and William Bergquist, Ph.D. Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together they compose the world. One world, made up of all things. One divinity, present in them all.  Marcus Aurelius, Meditations COVID-19 may be the single most impactful disruptive […]

Jeremy Fish, M.D. and William Bergquist, Ph.D. We face a major challenge in seeking to lead complex mid-21st Century organizations—and this is particularly a challenge regarding health care organizations and systems. It seems that many leaders convert complex dilemmas into simple puzzles. When they do so, they find that no matter how they solve the […]

William Bergquist, Ph.D. and Jeremy Fish, M.D. We must gain greater appreciation for the unique way in which complex adaptive systems operate before turning in the next essay in this series specifically to the way in which an understanding of these systems might help us address health care issues. In our previous essay (Fish and […]

Jeremy Fish, M.D. and William Bergquist, Ph.D. In this third essay, we are ready to turn in more detail to mid-21st Century health care and the way in which our understanding and appreciation of complex adaptive systems might assist in addressing the elusive contemporary problems that exist in American (and most other) health care system. […]