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Should Millennials Start Saving Money For Their Joint Replacement Now?
More and more surgeons are expected to withdraw from federal and private insurers just to stay afloat. At the current pace, it’s easy to imagine a free market where younger patients begin saving for their potential joint replacement as more surgeons wi…
What Happens When Your Doctor And Insurance Plan Disagree?
“I just think I have a right to get the surgery I want, and I think my surgeon has a right to perform the surgery she wants.”
If Patients Knew: Surgeon Stewardship Versus Balance Sheet Bureaucracy In Orthopaedic Surgery
Rather than treating “value-based care” as a smokescreen to protect profits, we must first align the practice and business of medicine to protect those who know the real value of our care and matter the most: the patient.
Devalue The Doctor: The Response Of A Manipulated System To Orthopaedic Surgeons
Devaluing the doctor and moving the goalposts for the whole medical team may tidy up the balance sheet, but the current trajectory of “value-based care” hardly leads us to a standard of care based on our values.
Telemedicine Offers Orthopaedic Patients The Best In Class
Borne from the pandemic, orthopaedic telemedicine finally arrives on the scene to offer patients direct access to the field’s leading experts.
Artificial Intelligence Should Start With Artificial Joints
The hype surround artificial intelligence and medicine is higher than ever, but where do we start? Orthopaedic surgery is centrally positioned to test and reap the benefits of tomorrow’s next industrial revolution.
No, A.I. Won’t Worsen Health Disparities But It May Safeguard the Doctor-Patient Relationship
The limitations of advanced machine learning applications in medicine are important to consider, but embracing symbiosis between human and artificial intelligence offers a solution that may improve health disparities, reduce cost inequities, and decrea…
How National Disasters Create Doctors With Borders
Despite the presence of a highly skilled and willing physician workforce desiring to serve American victims during times of national disaster and scarce resources, administrative regulation and board licensure discourages doctors from crossing domestic…
How Bundling Care Hurts The Patients Who Need It The Most
A health care system predicated on “one size fits all” is unsustainable and widens health disparities. With big data and machine learning, we have the ability to target resources and create a patient-specific care model that values health equity over e…
