The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association responded to a report published by Kaiser Health News and USA Today titled, "As Surgery Centers Boom, Patients Are Paying With Their Lives."
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Here are the 10 most-read articles featured on Becker's Spine Review between Feb. 26 and March 2.
Andrew Wickline, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at New Hartford, N.Y.-based Genesee Orthopedics & Plastic Surgery Associates.
In a male dominated field, taking on leadership roles in orthopedic surgery as a woman is rare. However, Leesa Galatz, MD, the System Chair of Orthopaedics at the New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has transcended this barrier and…
Jason Tani, MD, joined North Hawaii Health & Wellness Orthopedic Clinic at the North Hawaii Community Hospital in Waimea, Big Island Now reports.
Kirk Clifford, MD, and James Gebhard, MD, will join Community Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., where they will start an orthopedic spine surgery program, according to The Business Times.
Sports medicine physicians can tackle the opioid crisis with non-opioid pain management, according to Bert Mandelbaum, MD, orthopedic surgeon and co-chair of medical affairs at Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles in Medscape Orthopedics.
Interventional pain physician John Prunskis, MD, was appointed to the HHS pain management taskforce.
Salt Lake City-based orthopedic surgeon Kade Huntsman, MD, leads the Salt Lake Orthopaedic Clinic at St. Marks Hospital. He performs robot-assisted spine surgery and uses cutting-edge technologies in his procedures.
David Hanscom, MD, is a board certified orthopedic surgeon at Swedish Neuroscience Institute in Seattle.