In Healio Community’s June book club, Todd R. Otten, MD, FAAP, shared the impetus behind his book, Ripple of Change, a collaborative story of physician and patient burnout caused by an impaired American health care system in need of change.
Otten, a family physician and Naval flight surgeon, coauthored this book with his patient, Joshua Judy, to encourage stakeholders to reconceptualize the system and consider the well-being of both doctors and patients.
Hansa Bhargava, MD, chief clinical strategy and innovation officer at Healio, emphasized the book’s timely relevance.
“So many of us actually