The Danbury Medical Files
Hello, I am Christian Espana Schmidt, MD. During my 25 years of medical career, I have witnessed changes in the medical profession. Starting as a medical student in Guatemala, Central America, where after medical school I completed my internal medicine residency, and then I served in a rural community for 6 years with innovation that persists, I went to New York City, where I repeated another internal medicine residency and was chief resident. My joy for teaching took me to Pensilvania where I learned about Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) a revolutionary technique to enhance physical examinations. I proudly started the POCUS program at Danbury Hospital. Now, I am developing the POCUS program of CIFC Health, a program dedicated exclusively to teaching POCUS in the outpatient clinic. As you can see, I already said I teach POCUS; however, I am very interested in other topics in medicine.
Of course I will continue to discuss POCUS, however I hope to dive in new topics in medicine.
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The content is not generated with AI; all content is curated, and I try to present the evidence behind my opinions.
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The Danbury Medical Files
Hospital Mergers
In this episode I am discussing the effects of hospital and healthcare systems mergers. I have tried to place a vast amount of information in a few minutes.
I hope this will be of your interest and will be good information.
Lastly, a call for action from all the physician community. We need to participate more, sadly participating more can be risky, however, in the current times not participating will be more detrimental for our profession. Here some links:
https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/ten-things-to-know-about-consolidation-in-health-care-provider-markets/
https://www.aha.org/aha-search?search_api_fulltext=hospital+mergers
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35157040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6170097/
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Also I have a new youtube channel #IMPOCUS
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpzYai7ngGjZ00NOnUozc_w
