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All Posts by David Beran, DO
About David Beran, DO
What Is A “Rock Star” Doctor?
By David Beran, DO - February 24, 2020
Many physicians possess some of these characteristics, but excellent physicians possess them all. Seamlessly integrating them into an excellent patient care experience is what makes you a rock star.
How To Explore A New Job Market As An Emergency Physician
By David Beran, DO - December 16, 2019
Working as an attending means a greater degree of responsibility than working as a resident. You are more likely to have hospital or system-level roles, be involved with committees or champion hospital initiatives. Having a sense of the job market gives insight into the context of your job interest and enables you make the best possible decision when pursuing a job. For the purposes of this post, I’ll presume you know nothing about an area—you’re moving to a new location and would like to size up a job market that is completely foreign to you. Any information you have by word-of-mouth will only help solidify what you gather by using the approach below.
Five Ways Medical Culture Harms the Doctor-Patient Relationship
By David Beran, DO - November 4, 2019
Current medical culture has evolved over thousands of years. It dictates how we treat each other and ourselves. It's an insidious culture of self-neglect, unspoken hierarchies, jousting, and undervalued humanity. As physicians, we are expected to establish rapport and trust with our patients while enmeshed in medical culture. Our "values, norms, and practices" are to care for patients as we would our own family members. The success we're striving for is to have best possible outcome for all of our patients. But our goals and culture are antagonistic; good patient outcomes will occur despite medical culture, not because of it. The following are just five ways medical culture undermines the efforts to establish a successful doctor-patient relationship.
Tips for Surviving Shift Work in Medicine
By David Beran, DO - August 29, 2019
Flipping between night and day shifts is like being perpetually jet lagged. You're irritable, tired, hungry, and confused. But if you're a physician, it's a feeling you're accustomed to...
What Emergency Medicine Physicians Want From Recruiters
By David Beran, DO - August 1, 2019
It’s time to get over the antagonistic relationship a lot of doctors have with recruiters and get to a point where we can help each other. Ultimately, it can only benefit us both to have higher quality interactions...
Dealing with Bad Patient Outcomes
By David Beran, DO - July 16, 2019
Working in a high-liability specialty for the past nine years, I have received the news of bad outcomes several times. It never gets easier—and frankly I think that if it does, it's a good sign that I should probably quit clinical medicine. Below is the process I go through and a few tips I wish I knew earlier on...
