We are at an interesting crossroads in medicine. Doctors and other health care providers are being asked to adjust their way of practice in significant ways, in order to address increasing health care costs and other demands on their relationship with patients. Yet doctors continue to show up, and attempt to practice with great heart and compassion. During Sunday’s show we interviewed two such physicians: Dr. David Loxterkamp, a family physician + author of A Measure of My Days and What Matters in Medicine, and Dr. Rick Marden, a family physician who specializes in family medicine and member of numerous medical mission trips.
Guests
David Loxterkamp
David Loxterkamp is a family physician who resides in Belfast with his wife and two children. David’s expertise is in addiction medicine, group visits, narrative medicine, and practice transformation. He is a founding member of Seaport Community Health Center and in 2012 he was named “Best of the Best” in medical practice and physician in Waldo County, Maine. David’s most recent book What Matters in Medicine, which is an exploration of the patient-doctor relationship and what really needs to come out of that relationship to ensure wellness in a person’s health and in our healthcare system.
Rick Marden
Rick Marden is a family medicine doctor; he lives in Brunswick with his spouse and three children. Rick’s special interests include pediatrics, procedural medicine, wellness, and overseas medical missions. He has traveled to Africa, Nepal, Guatemala, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. He also spent nine years practicing rural family medicine in Dixfield, Maine. He received his M.D. from Loma Linda University, School of Medicine in Loma Linda, CA. He completed Family practice residency in Bristol, Tenn and moved back home to Maine in 2002.
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