How one health care family is using fiction to inspire real change in medicine
American health care is broken. There are decades of literature detailing the physician shortage, burnout, moral injury, administrative bloat, devaluing of physicians, the shift from fee-for-service to real value unit (RVU)–based compensation, as well as the challenges of electronic medical records. No discernible and substantive changes have been made.
Coming from a health care family, I was familiar with the challenges I would face as a physician. My father, John Denman, …
