Peter Valenzuela

Articles and interviews

Explore Peter’s published articles and interviews on physician leadership, healthcare innovation, organizational culture, and creativity.

Dr. Peter Valenzuela in a podcast studio

Interview

ZDoggMD interview

A conversation about Doc-Related, patient experience, EHR burden, leadership communication, and healthcare’s human side.

Video interview · ZDoggMD

Fix Healthcare With a Comic Strip?

1h 09m

Peter discusses Doc-Related, patient experience, EHR burden, leadership communication, quality metrics, and healthcare’s human side.

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Publications

Published Articles

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MGMA Insights

Why Change Fails in Medical Groups and How Leaders Can Remove the Friction

MGMA Connection

Leading Change That Lasts: Sticky Strategies for Healthcare Leaders

AMGA Group Practice Journal

The Wrong Stuff

AMGA Group Practice Journal

Let’s Start Measuring Quality Metrics That Matter

MGMA Insights

Why Change Fails in Medical Groups and How Leaders Can Remove the Friction

Durable healthcare change needs clear direction, motivated people, and workflows that reduce friction rather than blame.

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MGMA Connection

Leading Change That Lasts: Sticky Strategies for Healthcare Leaders

How healthcare leaders can communicate simply, credibly, emotionally, and through stories that motivate action.

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AMGA Group Practice Journal

The Wrong Stuff

Why leaders’ cognitive biases hinder accountability—and how humility, curiosity, and admitting mistakes improve leadership.

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AMGA Group Practice Journal

Let’s Start Measuring Quality Metrics That Matter

A case for reducing, standardizing, and redesigning quality metrics around meaningful patient outcomes rather than administrative volume.

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MGMA Connection

Laughing Your Way to the Top: Why Humor Is Vital in Leadership

How workplace humor can strengthen leadership, communication, trust, creativity, morale, and relationships when used thoughtfully.

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MGMA Connection

Are You in the Right Mind to Lead? Exercises and Tips to Train and Nourish Your Creative Side

Six right-brain aptitudes—from design to empathy—can help healthcare leaders strengthen creativity and lead with more humanity.

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Conversations

Podcasts and Interviews

Explore conversations about healthcare culture, leadership, creativity, and the lived experience of practicing medicine.

KevinMD

Patient Surveys: The Quest for Positive Reviews

MGMA Insights · 28 min

Doc-Related: A Physician’s Guide to Fixing Healthcare

Doctor’s Inn · 30 min

Physician Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Communication

Podcast

KevinMD

Patient Surveys: The Quest for Positive Reviews

A conversation about patient-satisfaction pressure, online reviews, unnecessary care, and the impact on clinician well-being.

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Podcast

MGMA Insights

Doc-Related: A Physician’s Guide to Fixing Healthcare

28 min

Peter discusses Doc-Related, physician leadership, the comic strip, and practical reforms for ailing healthcare systems.

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Podcast

Doctor’s Inn

Physician Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Communication

30 min

A wide-ranging discussion on physician entrepreneurship, clinical leadership, business, communication, and Doc-Related.

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Articles and interviews

ZDoggMD interview

Fix Healthcare With a Comic Strip?

Browse the archive

Published Articles

Why Change Fails in Medical Groups and How Leaders Can Remove the Friction

Leading Change That Lasts: Sticky Strategies for Healthcare Leaders

The Wrong Stuff

Let’s Start Measuring Quality Metrics That Matter

Why Change Fails in Medical Groups and How Leaders Can Remove the Friction

Leading Change That Lasts: Sticky Strategies for Healthcare Leaders

The Wrong Stuff

Let’s Start Measuring Quality Metrics That Matter

Laughing Your Way to the Top: Why Humor Is Vital in Leadership

Are You in the Right Mind to Lead? Exercises and Tips to Train and Nourish Your Creative Side

Podcasts and Interviews

Patient Surveys: The Quest for Positive Reviews

Doc-Related: A Physician’s Guide to Fixing Healthcare

Physician Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Communication

Patient Surveys: The Quest for Positive Reviews

Doc-Related: A Physician’s Guide to Fixing Healthcare

Physician Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Communication

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