About the author
Tom Turmezei
Tom completed his training in radiology with a musculoskeletal specialist interest in 2011, having worked as a Specialist Registrar in Norwich, Nottingham and Cambridge. He then won a one year Evelyn Trust research fellowship to study imaging in hip osteoarthritis with the Cambridge Bone Research Group and is now in the second of a three-year Wellcome Trust research fellowship at the Department of Engineering in Cambridge, developing automated analysis of hip imaging data. His long-term goal is to set up his own musculoskeletal imaging research group. Cross-disciplinary research and training experiences at a number of hospitals have reinforced his belief that the NHS has much to learn from other professional cultures as well as those prospering within it.
Tom is a medical writer, having co-authored previous editions of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine and the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties. It was with this experience that he approached the FMLM with the concept of an online 'bookclub' to bring together ideas on leadership and management from diverse sources for the benefit of all those with a vested interest in the future of the NHS. Tom is now co-editor of the FMLM Bookclub (with Sam Byrne).
As this inaugural Bookclub forum review draws to its close, Christmas spirits are gleefully starting to rise, mainly in the form of home-made sloe gin infused with the recent dripping harvest from Saffron Walden's hedgerows! With this in mind, it is my pleasure to announce that next month’s FMLM Bookclub review will be lead by Anna Moore.
Anna is a Psychiatry trainee, DoH Clinical Fellow and a member of the establishing faculty team (/about-us/dr-anna-moore). She will be leading us through 'MBA for Medics' (ISBN-13 978-1846194382) written by Emma Stanton and Clare Lemer, which was released by Radcliffe Publishing in September 2010. Emma and Clare are also both members of the faculty, so this should be a great opportunity to discuss ideas about our featured book with the authors as the review forum progresses - if we can entice them from their post-Christmas ham-and-jam-packed schedules!
I will be reading along with Anna and encourage any others that have been following the Bookclub to join in and create some debate. Drawn from the Mayo Clinic example from chapter 6 in this month’s title (p77), how’s about this for starters:
‘Best left to the professionals? Doctors should leave MBA degrees to the healthcare administrators...’
Yup - that seems controversial enough. Merry Christmas and keep on reading!
Tom