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“If you haven't had a few dents in your resume, you haven't tried.” Andrew Forrest

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T (Thomas) Michael (Mike) White MD FACP is a retired general internist.  He is an alumnus of Union College and Albany Medical College.  He trained at New York Medical College, at Greenwich Hospital/Yale University, at Michigan State University and at Crosby’s Quality College.  His career addressed clinical, academic, administrative and regulatory medicine.  He served in private practice, as residency program director, department chair, chief medical officer, vice president value (quality and safety ÷ cost) and vice president for medical affairs.  He held academic appointments at the University of Arizona, Temple University, the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh.  He consulted for The Joint Commission and for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.  His career emphasized partnerships that 1) facilitated the success of aspiring physicians; and 2) inspired institutions to realize cultures that embraced compassionate, safe, timely, efficient, effective, equitable/just patient-centered care (C-STEEEP).

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            He has written eight books for your consideration:

Stepping into the Lead — A Leadership Pocket Primer

(with chief executive/entrepreneur Mr. Charley Price

(Amazon 2024)

A ‘Grand’ Lad Golfs — A Fable for Fading and Trailing Generations

(Amazon 2023)

Smoke Signals II — Life Tools for Trailing Generations

(with internist/physician executive Dr. Dana S Kellis MD PHD)

(Amazon 2023)

Affordable Basic Health Care for All — An American Health Care System Charter

(with geriatrician/physician executive Dr. Stephen F Hightower)

(Amazon 2020)

Letters to an Aspiring Physician — Reflecting on a Career in Medicine

(with otolaryngologist/physician executive Dr. Edward Drawbaugh) 

(Amazon 2017)

Safer Medical Care for You and Yours

Six Tools for Safe, Effective Compassionate Care

(with geriatrician/physician executive Dr. Stephen F Hightower)

 (Amazon 2016)

A Crystal Spring Thanksgiving — A Little Girl Plays Manly Golf

(Amazon 2013)

Unsafe to Safe — An Impatient Proposal for Safe Patient-centered Care

(Amazon 2012)

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Dr. Mike proudly hails from Schenectady.  To this day, his roots run deep in the Adirondacks (Saratoga and Lake George).  With wife Jacquelyn Forsythe White RN/BSN, he resides on Florida’s Belleair Bluff — a beach, biking, golf and pool destination often visited by children (4) and grandchildren (9).  Writing as W Ryder Black MD, he is the founding (and only) member of four organizations: GCA (Grandparent Caddies Association); P3A (Personal Professional Patient Advocates); SG4 (Serious Grand Gentlemen Geriatric Golfers Society); and Championship Golf’s The White Medallion Society.  Membership applications are available upon request.  Membership requirements are relaxed.  Initiation fees are dear.   

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Recognizing his work is a far from finished continuous improvement process, he is anxious to appreciate your insights and your perspectives — your realities.  He is at his best when you confide what he has right, has wrong and what he has omitted.  Dr. Mike will be pleased to hear from you.  Your communications will greatly enhance his future, always humble but earnest efforts.  He will be pleased to hear from you.

TMWMD