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What did You learn from Your Patients?
Many of us in physician leadership roles are tasked with carrying out professional reviews with our physician colleagues. It can be a...

David Brown MD
Nov 16, 20202 min read
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Should physicians promise patients anything?
Developing an authentic patient-physician relationship was always one of the most fulfilling aspects of practicing medicine. Having a...

David Brown MD
Jun 19, 20202 min read
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Did we make the opioid epidemic too complex?
It was the year 2000, I was chair of anesthesia at the University of Iowa, practicing pain medicine and the Editor-in-Chief of the...

David Brown MD
Jun 12, 20202 min read
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What is Physician Burnout
Physician burnout has become an in-vogue term that physicians understand intuitively, and non-physician leaders push back against. The...

David Brown MD
May 14, 20202 min read
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How is ambiguity impacting physicians?
When new patients arrive in our offices clinical ambiguity is often present. We don’t know the patient and haven’t had an opportunity to...

David Brown MD
Apr 22, 20201 min read
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How Do You Find Your First Real Job?
After sequential, four-plus year blocks of undergraduate work, then medical school, then residency training, and often a fellowship, you...

David Brown MD
Mar 6, 20201 min read
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What is Successful Mentoring?
So often mentor relationships come via assigning less experienced professionals with those further up the professional ladder. This...

David Brown MD
Feb 24, 20201 min read
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Seeking A Wise Circle
As a great author, C.S. Lewis stated many years ago, "the next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”...

David Brown MD
Feb 10, 20201 min read
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Love Them and Lead Them
Reflecting on a career that allowed me an almost continuous opportunity to mentor physicians and others on our teams, the one reprint...

David Brown MD
Feb 3, 20201 min read
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Physician Careers
From medical school onward, physicians are rewarded for being independent and creative thinkers. Uncertainty about an approach to a...

David Brown MD
Feb 3, 20201 min read
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