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As a pediatrician in a children’s hospital within an adult hospital within a healthcare system built for adults, I’ve learned just how steep the climb can be when you're fighting for buy-in. 

Every day you need buy-in:

• for your patients
• for your team, and
• for what you know is right.

Have you ever found yourself certain of the right course of action, only to come up against a system with priorities and processes that feel completely misaligned? I have.

When the stakes are high, it can feel like the only option is to shout from the rooftops — to make noise, push harder, and speak louder. After all, how else will people understand what you know so clearly?

But here’s what I’ve learned: being the squeaky wheel rarely works. Especially in medicine. 

Busy doctors, like all humans, are creatures of habit. And change — the kind that actually sticks — it’s slow. It’s uncomfortable.

And it takes more than just being right.

It takes strategy. It takes vision. It takes patience.

Dr. Stephanie Yamout helps women physician leaders get their time back, own their value, and command the room as they were born to do. For coaching support, apply for Stephanie's Signature Program here and she'll be in touch to invite you to a call.