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The DO

The elephant in the room: What medicine misses when care becomes fragmented

By The DO Staff

10.02.26

Ahead of National Latino Physician Day (Oct. 1), Lourdes Bahamonde, DO, MS, explores how clinical judgment can be lost in standardized healthcare pathways and why meaningful representation requires the agency to recognize what is missing and change what happens next.