Focus on the Details: Committees in Medicine

Carlene Macmillan, MD, and the role of committees and determining the healthcare for all of us

The Frontier Psychiatrists is a daily-enough health themed newsletter. Its editor—and writer for the majority—is Owen Scott Muir. Owen is married to Carlene. She is also a physician, and a much more serious person by a lot. Today, the day after Carlene was inducted as a Fellow of the Clinical TMS Society, I celebrate some of her accomplishments. She is the queen of details and the of the practical. I'm thrilled to re-introduce Carlene MacMillan, M.D., FCTMSS.

She does a LOT of committee work. For my general audience readership, in the world of medicine we have professionals societies, and they are “stacked” from subspecialty societies, then specialty societies, then the American Medical Association (AMA) when it comes to what codes exists to pay for which treatment. Those societies and sub societies are run by committees. These committees are similar to all groups of people—and we know how efficient groups of people are. There is a great reason startups have one or two c…