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While the orthopedic industry was prepared for an ongoing influx in backlogged procedures following the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report suggests that the backlog has already been exhausted, according to a March 31 report from Seeking Alpha.
Adam Schneider, MD, has joined the Orthopedics and Spine Institute at Northern Arizona Healthcare's Verde Valley Medical Center in Cottonwood, Ariz.
Ascension St. Vincent Evansville (Ind.) has added the physicians and staff of Evansville-based Midwest Neurological to its medical group, according to an April 1 report from WFIE.
Approximately 12% of neurologists are feeling so burned out that they plan to leave medicine because of it, according to Medscape's 2024 "Neurologist Burnout and Depression Report," published March 29.
East Providence, R.I.-based University Orthopedics has become the first practice in the state to add EOSedge, a state-of-the-art imaging system, according to a March 31 report from Providence Business News.
Orthofix has tapped Beau Standish as its chief enabling technologies officer, according to an April 1 LinkedIn post from SeaSpine.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office, a watchdog group, alleges that the Veterans Affairs Health Administration has not been properly tracking artificial hip and shoulder devices in patients.
A new orthopedic ASC, Hayden Surgery Center, is opening in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, according to a March 31 report from the Coeur d'Alene/Post Falls Press.
Orthopedic surgeon Ryan Shephard, DO, has performed the county's first anterior total hip replacement at Dunkirk, N.Y.-based Brooks Hospital.