Jeremy Phelps, MD, MBA, FAANS
Jeremy Phelps, MD, MBA, FAANS, is a hospital-employed neurosurgeon in Oklahoma City and is on the Executive Committee of the Council of State Neurosurgical Societies.
Career progression is an inevitability in all fields. We begin as medical students, transition into residency, begin our careers as young practitioners and, eventually, move into a more established, senior role. For those of us who are well into our careers, we will often find ourselves welcoming a new physician into our group, academic department or hospital system. Integrating...
Increasingly, neurosurgeons are employed by large hospital systems. One of the most common reasons cited by neurosurgeons is the desire to focus on patient care, leaving the business focus to the hospital system. While this desire to “focus on taking care of patients” may seem admirable, and even desirable, it removes the neurosurgeon from activities such as coding, personnel...
