Britta Denman, DO
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Conditions and diseases
This is the month after discharge from a health care facility when patients are at high risk for death, injury, or readmission to the hospital. As a physician, I have planned thousands of discharges. I have sat in a seemingly…
This is the month after discharge from a health care facility when patients are at high risk for death, injury, or readmission to the hospital. As a physician, I have planned thousands of discharges. I have sat in a seemingly infinite number of multidisciplinary rounds.
My fiance was recently hospitalized and had subsequent complications not related to the surgery. Most of the doctors that cared for him prior to discharge are …
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Transitional care fails even the best-prepared patients
Physician voices
I love being a doctor. I do not enjoy many aspects of practicing medicine in the U.S. health care system. In the struggle to balance these truths, mentorship from several extraordinary physicians has steadied me. As gifted diagnosticians and models…
I love being a doctor. I do not enjoy many aspects of practicing medicine in the U.S. health care system. In the struggle to balance these truths, mentorship from several extraordinary physicians has steadied me. As gifted diagnosticians and models of bedside medicine, they have meant as much to me personally as the knowledge they shared.
I return to these mentors’ words often. Their guidance provides a framework I use to …
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Physician mentorship helps doctors endure the system
Physician voices
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…
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, …
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