Orthopedic surgeon Aenor Sawyer, MD, is serving as medical director for a University of California San Francisco project that will test the entire town of Bolinas, Calif., for COVID-19.
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Ninety-seven percent of medical practices have suffered a financial hit due to the cessation of elective surgeries in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the orthopedic specialty is no different.
For most spine surgeons, the pandemic has meant closing their practice doors and turning to telemedicine.
These 19 states have allowed or announced plans to allow healthcare providers to resume elective surgeries.
The COVID-19 pandemic has added to the economic difficulties of many private practices that were already in a cost-cutting mode to address the challenges of declining reimbursements and rising costs.
Here are seven orthopedic surgeons making the news this week:
Exclusively focusing on urgent medical needs during the COVID-19 pandemic could spawn a "secondary healthcare crisis," according to Benjamin Domb, MD, whose opinion was published by the Daily Herald.