Fragmentation: Our Greatest Threat

Leadership Perspectives| March 2024 Fragmentation: Our Greatest Threat Michael W. Champeau, MD, FAAP, FASA Michael W. Champeau, MD, FAAP, FASA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor March 2024, Vol. 88, 8–10. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0001008232.20523.ec Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Michael W. Champeau; Fragmentation: Our Greatest Threat. ASA Monitor 2024; 88:8–10 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0001008232.20523.ec Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: advocacy, community, economics, employee, employer, heterogeneity, leadership, ownership, pain, partnerships Although this is my ninth and final yearly contribution to Leadership Perspectives in the ASA Monitor, writing these columns remains a challenge. After eight previous officer contributions and 51 Monday Morning Outreaches during my year at the helm, it's difficult to imagine that I'd have anything worthwhile left to say! In the early years, during my stint as Treasurer, I wrote about ASA's investment strategy, its Foundations, and its budgeting priorities. Mostly inside baseball, to be honest. In more recent times, I've focused on what I fear to be the greatest threat to our society, and indeed the profession: fragmentation. This being my final shot, I'm going to stick with that theme again because I think it's important to raise awareness of this peril facing ASA and our specialty. Anesthesiology has evolved in significant ways since I first started. In those days, the specialty was far more homogeneous, and... You do not currently have access to this content.