From job complexity to talented coworkers, three physician leaders joined Becker's to discuss what they like the most about their job.
Editor's note: These responses were edited lightly for clarity and length.
Michael Cashman, MD. Dermatologist in Bellevue, Wash.: What I like the most about my job is the variety and complexity of patients I see. I get to practice both medicine and surgery and see all ages, from babies to nonagenarians, with conditions as simple as the common wart to complex systemic diseases like urticarial vasculitis.
Dean Frate, MD. President of Medical Staff at Summa Health (Akron, Ohio): What I enjoy most about my job is being a conduit/translator for the business, community outreach and clinical aspects of our health system. It has been an area of personal growth, enriching my own understanding of a broader swath of total healthcare. Using what I've learned to help people expand their view of that landscape from where in it I meet them, to understand the wider connectedness, and, in most cases, establish or reestablish meaning in their experiences with our system is rewarding and fulfilling.
Grace Terrell, MD. Chief Product Officer of IKS Healthcare: My favorite part of my job is working across two continents with an incredibly talented group of clinicians, technologists, engineers and entrepreneurs to work on solving some of the wickedest problems in healthcare. We are deconstructing every aspect of the administrative and clinical journeys that physicians, their teams and their patients undertake every day to come up with far more efficient and effective ways of delivering great healthcare.