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Spine surgeons and interventional spine physicians who wish to practice endoscopic spine surgery should be required to complete formal training, according to spine surgeons at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in a Journal of Spine article.

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According to recently published results, patients who underwent orthopedic surgery in an inpatient setting had a moderate preference for male and female physicians who wore a white coat over scrubs or business attire and in some cases, scrubs alone. “Patients do care about how we dress, and it influences their impressions of us as treating orthopedic surgeons,” John D. Jennings, MD,

Low back pain has become a very common occurrence nowadays with over 12 million Americans visiting their doctors with complaints of chronic back pain every year; while over a 100 million visit a chiropractor. Problems with the spinal column can cause devastating effects on a person’s life. It deprives them of their mobility and flexibility. Even everyday activities become a challenge in some cases. With so many of such cases and the advancements in medical science, it is ironic to see a huge…

An analysis of over 1 million patients found a small but significant increase in adverse outcomes when female patients were operated on by a male surgeon compared to a female surgeon.

When U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords flew home to Tucson, Arizona, in January 2011 to conduct a series of town hall meetings, she had no idea how dramatically her life would change during that trip. While giving a speech in a Safeway parking lot, the Democratic House member was shot in the head. Six people were killed in the attack and Giffords, along with 12 others, was critically injured. Although she had survived the assassination attempt, the brain injury Giffords sustained robbed her of…

December 3, 2013 Hands on the steering wheel, one foot toggling between brake and pedal, head twisting to check mirrors. Consider the many bones and joints you must engage before you even turn on a car’s ignition, among them the fingers, wrist, forearm, elbow, shoulder, neck, heel, ankle and leg. If you’ve recently had an injury to any of them, when is it safe to resume driving? It turns out there are no widely accepted return-to-driving timelines for patients who must wear casts…

Corresponding author. J. Rickert MD, IU Health Southern Indiana Physicians, 583 S Clarizz Blvd. Bloomington, IN, 47401 USA, Email: gro.htlaehui@1trekcirj Received 2019 Apr 26; Accepted 2019 May 3. Copyright © 2019 by the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons In early April of this year, New York state Attorney General Letitia James announced a lawsuit against a stem cell clinic for performing unproven procedures on patients…

Corresponding author. T. K. Kim MD, PhD, TK Orthopedic Surgery, 55 Dongpankyo-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam, Republic of Korea, Email: moc.oohay@0002ktkso Received 2019 May 20; Accepted 2019 May 30. Copyright © 2019 by the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. The proportion of physicians involved in private practice in the Asia-Pacific region generally ranges from 60% to 70% [ 5 , 6 , 10 , 13 , 25 ]. For perspective, in the United States…

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