Sandy Brown is a family medicine physician based in Fort Bragg, California, where he is in independent practice. He earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1973 and completed a transitional year internship at Alameda Health System Highland Hospital from 1973 to 1974. He has maintained an active California state medical license since 1974.
Over the course of his career, Dr. Brown has written extensively on person-focused care, physician-patient communication, practice management, and the relational foundations of primary care. His articles, published in Family Practice Management and American Family Physician, address topics such as closing the communication loop, delivering difficult news, health care reform, and sustaining the core values of family medicine. His peer-reviewed work is indexed on PubMed.
Additional professional information is available on LinkedIn and through his public profile on Doximity.
At our yearly Christmas medical staff dinner this last year, our chief of staff asked all the doctors present who had been working at our hospital for five or more years to stand up. Quite a few of us rose. He then asked those who had been there 10 years or more to remain standing. After half of us sat down, he upped the ante to 15 years, then to …
Today, in the mail, I received a claim summary for medical care that my wife received. She saw an orthopedic PA for an achy knee and got a shot of a slippery substance that was supposed to be superior to steroids. “Is this stuff expensive?” she asked him. “Don’t worry about it,” he said. “You have Medicare. It will cover it.”
It didn’t help her knee, though, and she moved on …
Why I won’t let my wife see her EOBs anymore
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