The White Coat and the Corner Office: A Story of Reinvention, Purpose, and the Road Between the Clinic and the Boardroom (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798255731152)

What happens when the doctor who heals patients decides to heal the system?
Dr. Luna Sharma has done everything right. She survived the grueling years of medical school, powered through internship, and is now two years into clinical practice - dedicated, skilled, and quietly exhausted.
But Luna notices something her colleagues have learned to ignore: the gap between excellent clinical care and the broken systems that surround it. Supplies that arrive late. Discharge processes that take six hours for a straightforward case. Equipment requests that vanish into administrative silence. A trolley that sits in a corridor for three days because nobody owns the problem.
Who, Luna wonders, is responsible for that gap?
This question sets her on a journey she never planned - from the hospital ward to a Master of Business Administration in Healthcare Management, from junior doctor to quality manager, from student to professor, and ultimately to a career that transforms not just her own life but the careers of hundreds of doctors who follow in her path.
The White Coat and the Corner Office is a completely fictional narrative written for the generation of healthcare professionals who feel the weight of a system that needs better leaders - and who have the clinical foundation to become those leaders.
Through Luna's story, readers discover the world of healthcare management: hospital operations, quality and accreditation standards including NABH and JCI, healthcare finance, health insurance, materials management, organizational leadership, project management, and the professional pathways that allow doctors to drive change at scale.
This book is written for: - MBBS, BAMS, BHMS, BUMS, PharmD, BPT, and BDS graduates - Junior doctors facing burnout and seeking a purposeful next step - Medical students curious about careers beyond clinical practice - Healthcare professionals who want to lead, not just practice
Luna's story is fictional. The career it describes - and the difference it makes - is entirely real.
The stethoscope brought you to healthcare. This book will show you how far you can take it.