You Cannot Fire Your Way to Excellence: Prior White House Physician CAPT (Ret) Gerard R. Cox, MD, MHA on Accountability, Just Culture, and High Reliability in Federal Health Care

Podcast: WarDocs - The Military Medicine Podcast · Doug Soderdahl, Wayne Causey

Opublikowano: 2026-09-09

Retired Navy Captain Gerard Cox, MD, built a forty-year career out of a four-year commitment. He signed with the Navy's Health Professions Scholarship Program because his parents had already stretched to pay for an expensive undergraduate education, intending to serve his obligation and return to New England as a general internist. Three months into a medicine internship at Bethesda he knew that path was wrong. A flight surgeon tour with Marine squadrons out of Cherry Point gave him time to mature as a physician and to find emergency medicine, then a new and contested specialty. By the eleven-year mark th...