Author: Michael Gallagher, MD

Michael Gallagher, MD Michael Gallagher, MD (1 Posts)

Resident Physician Contributing Writer

Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School/Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation

Michael Gallagher is a PGY-3 resident in physical medicine & rehabilitation at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School/Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation interested in palliative care, the ethics of rehabilitation and physiotherapy, and health care labor relations. Outside of work he is a mediocre 400m sprinter, sci-fi writer, and amateur barista.




Bosses of Us: Doctors, Administrators, and the Profit Motive

Published by Michael Gallagher, MD

The pandemic points to an important lesson: a rejection of traditional leadership structures, at least those that feed into a profit-based medical system, may be necessary in order to create a different world. The union provides such a framework, vesting power in a collective of voices. But in order to succeed at the level of a union, physicians need to let their voices join that collective — they cannot expect a delegate or representative alone to do the entire job, just as we might expect a program director to guide us in the right direction.

Michael Gallagher, MD Michael Gallagher, MD (1 Posts)

Resident Physician Contributing Writer

Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School/Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation

Michael Gallagher is a PGY-3 resident in physical medicine & rehabilitation at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School/Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation interested in palliative care, the ethics of rehabilitation and physiotherapy, and health care labor relations. Outside of work he is a mediocre 400m sprinter, sci-fi writer, and amateur barista.