Word: orthopedist
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...researchers (who seem to do a lot of operating on clavicles) found that people who had the surgery actually had less pain and less bump than those treated only with the support. So surgery as the best initial treatment is the researchers' suggestion. That's a conclusion which every orthopedist who has treated these fractures - as well as every patient, understandably nervous about being sliced open - is likely to question...
...want to buy a stock or mutual fund, I can call up my old friend the ob-gyn. I know three anesthesiologists who became financial analysts with investment firms. Two radiologists run imaging businesses, and a good orthopedist friend dropped out to put up magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facilities. Each trained hard for at least nine years to join his field of medicine. In no case could leaving have been an easy divorce...
...doctors the new stuff they can prescribe, or the new procedures they can do using new medical equipment. "Well, that's why there are laws about continuing medical education (CME)," you might say. The problem is that the CME apparatus is ungainly and practically impossible to standardize. As an orthopedist, I can get all the CME I need listening to lectures on handwashing and diversity sensitivity - and then poison my next patient with the wrong dose of a new drug...
...another a lot more patients are coming to their orthopedist complaining about shoulder pain. The arthroscopic repair is a great operation because it fixes the problem securely but leaves only three or four little cuts on your shoulder. Each is a mere centimeter long, they don't hurt very much (usually - there are exceptions) and you can go home from the hospital the same day. Most patients are off pain medicines and back to work in two days. It's my favorite case and they're my happiest patients. They tell their friends that they're out of pain. More...
...orthopedist who has seen a lot of tough older men with painless, yet arthritic joints, I'm suspicious of there being a peripheral pain blockade that sometimes occurs around joints that are simply not given a chance to rest when they hurt. These are the ones who when asked "Don't you have any pain? say something like "not really but what does it matter, I still have to work to put the food on the table." I don't think it can be a central blockade because it's always there; mental or brain level suppression would be more...