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Essays by Marina Davar
Notes from both sides of the healthcare workforce equation: building the programs that train clinical staff, and running the Cincinnati medical practice that hires them.
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The Student Who Failed the Same Skill Check Three Times
A repeated competency failure is a diagnostic problem, not a disciplinary one. What the fourth attempt should look like, and where the line actually sits.
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I Trained the People I Now Hire
What practices actually need on day one versus what programs graduate, and what you see when you have sat on both sides of the hiring desk.
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Building a Dental Assisting Program From Zero
Curriculum designed backward from employer need, the accreditation grind, a clinic built on a career-college budget, and what I would sequence differently.
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Denials Are a Management Problem, Not a Billing Problem
Most denials are born at the front desk, long before a claim is submitted. A practical, root-cause framework for practice leaders.