This letter to the editor was written by Brian J. Cole, MD, MBA, and Lisa A. Fortier, DVM, PhD.
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Joshua Landa, MD, a spine surgeon, has joined Atlantic Spine Care in Edison, N.J., according to an Atlantic Spine Care news release.
Elise T. Gordon, MD, a primary care sports medicine physician, has joined the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine and Baptist Medical Group in Gulf Breeze, Fla., according to a practice news release.
Coding for hand treatment and procedures presents unique challenges that Mary LeGrand, RN, MA, CCS-P, CPC, addresses in an article published in AAOS Now.
Surgeons at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have launched a hand transplant program and expect to perform the first hand transplant procedure in North Texas within the next year, according to a UT Southwestern news release.
Leon Benson, MD, is a hand surgeon and member of the board of directors at Illinois Bone & Joint Institute and chief of hand surgery in the department of orthopedic surgery at NorthShore University HealthSystem. He is also the president…
In addition to his work as an orthopedic surgeon, Michael Lewis, MD, is a published author and photographer, whose latest book Seeing More Colors donates profits to the Himalayan Cataract Project. His images have been published in several professional books…
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