Rita Dodge, MD, AME
Dr. Rita Dodge is a board certified Family Medicine physician and a certified Senior Aviation Medical Examiner. She is owner and CEO of Sastun Family Medicine in Santa Fe, New Mexico. JetMed is the name of her practice’s focused service to aviators.
She has practiced full-spectrum and evidence-based Family Medicine for over 20 years — from delivering babies to end-of-life care of older patients and nearly everything for everyone in between. She is fluent in English, Spanish and American Sign Language.
Dr. Dodge has spent her career caring for and seeing her patients as whole persons, not restrictively as body parts or disease states.
She practices thoroughly and attentively with the understanding foremost that her patients’ best health must consider the whole self — physical, emotional, social and environmental — and is centered on preventive care to avoid the suffering and cost of “fix it” care if possible. Ignoring any of these cornerstones, is likely the medical equivalent of ignoring the stall horn.
Dr. Dodge brings the same thoroughness, attentiveness and humanity of her medical practice to her aviator clients and their flight safety and advocacy needs.
All-in-all, her medical ethic for her patients and aviator clients is essentially the same as the wise aviator’s ethic of “sharpest skills, preventive maintenance, corners not cut and safety first”.
What’s more, her son’s a new pilot. She understands as only a doctor mom can about a pilot’s full medical safety needs. Who better to be looking out for you than mom?
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