The decision of who to interview regarding changes in the health care industry was easy and perfectly timed. My boss and longtime friend will be retiring in May 2016. I instinctively knew she would be happy to share the many changes in healthcare and the impact those changes have had on her professional career. Regina Slone has been practicing medicine for forty-one years. . She is a professor of pediatrics, specialist in pediatric infectious diseases and section head of pediatric infectious diseases at the University School of Medicine and Children's Hospital. She spent the majority of her professional career with this organization. Dr. Slone holds an academic position combining teaching, clinical care and research, which corresponds to the position of a traditional academic professor in a medical school. She is involved in activities related to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). She has been on the list of top doctors in the city for many years. With these degrees, one can imagine the vast number of changes she has seen and the impacts those changes have had on the health care delivery system. Over the past five years, she has witnessed increased bureaucracy at both the medical school and hospital levels. She believes the hospital operates more like a large commercial entity than a large clinical care organization. Growth, market share and competition remain the focus. We have become the leader in pediatrics and have a monopoly on the pediatric market. In fact, the number of SOM faculty has doubled, from 300 to 600, in an effort to reduce wait times and compete with the private practice model. She thinks the children's hospital has grown too fast...... middle of paper......ine. We must not forget the rewarding field in which our clinicians work and the many contributions of caring professionals, like Dr. Slone, to the field of medicine. These advances and discoveries have promoted children's health during his 41 years of practice. For this, many families are grateful to us and I am very fortunate to have worked closely with this remarkable person during wonderful and difficult times in the health care industry. Works Cited Angst, CM, Devaraj, S. and D’Arcy, J. (2012). Dual role of computer-mediated communication in patient care: A validated structure-process-outcome framework. Journal of Management Information Systems, 29(2), 257-292. Schultz, HA and Young, KM (2013). Health Care USA: Understanding its organization and delivery. Retrieved from http://www.jointcommission.org/assets/1/6/HAP_NPSG_Chapter_2014.pdf