Dena Rifkin is a physician at an academic medical center in the Northeast. She completed her medical training in internal medicine at Yale, where she also taught a course using literature to explore the doctor-patient relationship. Her practice is in kidney disease and her academic interests include issues related to successful aging.
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Dena Rifkin, MD
Posts by Dena Rifkin, MD
Hospitals Get Ready to Treat “Holiday Heart”
12/04/2008 - Doctor's POVNew Statin Study: What It Really Means for Your Heart Attack Risk
11/20/2008 - Doctor's POV, Health NewsKidney Doctors Take Philadelphia by Storm!
11/14/2008 - Doctor's POVDo Patients Get Better Care When They Look Like Their Doctors?
10/30/2008 - Doctor's POVI See the Failure of the Health-Care System Every Day
10/23/2008 - Doctor's POVThe Best Way to Prepare for Medical School: Get a Job
10/15/2008 - Doctor's POVAre Doctors Short on Empathy?
10/03/2008 - Doctor's POVHow to Take Care of the Very Old and Still Preserve Their Independence
09/26/2008 - Doctor's POVHow Should We Honor Death in a Hospital?
09/19/2008 - Doctor's POVThe Quiet Focus of a Hospital at Night
09/12/2008 - Doctor's POVA New Way to Calculate Your Disease Risk
09/05/2008 - Doctor's POVWe All Have Fainting Stories: Here’s Mine
08/29/2008 - Doctor's POVMassachusetts Makes Strides in Expanding Health-Insurance Coverage
08/22/2008 - Doctor's POVMost Patients Don’t Want to See Me
08/15/2008 - Doctor's POVWhen Doctors Don’t Have All the Answers
08/12/2008 - Doctor's POVSickness on the Street: How I Almost Walked Past My Own Patient
08/01/2008 - Doctor's POVWe Need a Better System to Avoid Medical Mistakes
07/25/2008 - Doctor's POV
