Hernan Antonio Bazan

Dec 9, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Allison Dimsdale |Priya Rajdev |Hernan Antonio Bazan |Caitlin McCarthy

Health care professionals today face a mountain of challenges in the workplace. We have more patients than ever, fewer clinicians, and more practices that include clinicians other than physicians. Our patients often delay care and thus are sicker when we tend to them. Patients have seemingly unrestricted access to us via messaging and have high expectations of the timing of our responses. Workdays are long and frenetic, and pajama-time charting and patient messaging are the status quo.

Dec 6, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Hernan Antonio Bazan |Priya Rajdev |Caitlin McCarthy |Arthur Lazarus

America is confronting an opioid crisis of unprecedented proportions, starkly highlighted by the devastating impact of fentanyl — a synthetic opioid . According to the latest data from the CDC, more than 112,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2023, with fentanyl being the leading cause. This staggering death toll surpasses U.S. military casualties in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan combined, signaling a national emergency that demands immediate attention.