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By Kenneth F. Taylor, MD If you would have asked me a year ago about my bucket list, I am sure I would have thought about family vacations, finding time to read for pleasure, or any of the common things people say reflexively. Well, if you haven’t noticed, this year has been “different.” A worldwide […]
By Jacqueline Corona, MD “Hello, my name is Dr. Jacqueline Corona. Pleasure to meet you. … Yes, that’s right—Corona.” With every greeting to a newly arrived patient, the pandemic is inescapably conjured into my examination room. When I utter the word Corona through my n95 mask, it brings to the foreground of my patient encounters […]
By Jose Couceiro, MD, PhD I currently work in a 900-bed hospital in northern Spain, a government-run facility. The main change for me has been the diminishment of our response capacity. Following the government’s anti-COIVD measures, the number of patients in clinics has been restricted. All surgical cases, except life emergencies, are required to have […]
By Kathlyn J. Drexler, MD At the outset of the pandemic, our hospital scrambled to develop surge plans, and most physicians in other fields and specialties were deployed to new posts within the hospital. But it seemed there was no reasonable way to repurpose an orthopod, so our department was reduced to working half of our […]
By Hilton P. Gottschalk, MD, FAAOS To give you perspective on this question, allow me to properly introduce myself and the responsibilities that I hold. I am the managing partner for my 9 physician / 70 employee practice. I am also the medical director of an ambulatory surgery center and hold a leadership position in our Children’s […]
By Hyun-Joo Lee, MD, PhD Aside from increased telemedicine appointments, what would you consider to be the biggest change to your practice during the pandemic? – Eureka! moment for the next big wave. During the striking outbreak of COVID-19 in our city, Korean government passed the law that a telemedicine appointment can be used. By […]
By Nathaniel S. Orillaza Jr., MD The early stages of the pandemic closed the doors of so many hospitals to non-COVID-related consults. In anticipation of the surge of cases that will need the facilities and require intensive care, Orthopedics, like most other times, is low priority compared to more life-threatening conditions. It seemed natural to […]
By Lisa Kruse, MD We spend at least 10 years, 3,650 days, or 41,600 hours (assuming an 80-hour week) to become hand surgeons. And the biggest surprise of my albeit just beginning career, is how much I love what I do. I have always enjoyed being a hand surgeon, but in the whirlwind of training, passing […]
By David Wei, MD, MS, on behalf of the LifeWiseMD team This post originally appeared on the LifeWiseMD team website. This excerpt has been reproduced with permission from Dr. Wei. I asked one of my patients what he does for a living recently and he casually revealed he was a retired Navy SEAL. It’s not […]
By Rahul Bamal MRCS, MCh I came to Merseyside, UK as a Hand Fellow in November 2019 after resigning from my permanent substantive consultant job as a plastic surgeon in India. I was due to retire in June 2050, yes, most people would not trade that for a fixed term job in a far away […]