Word: orthopedist
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...tell, faith in expert opinion is how medical students, residents and even full-blown docs do much of their learning - mostly just trusting a few great doctors who teach. I know enough math to know that neither my colleagues nor I really know statistics. Not one orthopedist nor one neurosurgeon in my acquaintance really understands the math used in statistical papers. They learn by faith in somebody else's statistics, by trust in the reputation of an individual, or journal or university...
...have a chapter on boomeritis, including some of my stories, the various baby-boomer injuries I've had. Many days, even though I'm a cardiologist, I feel more like an orthopedist in my practice because we always ask about how people are exercising, and they have a lot of complaints. We're sitting slumped over a computer all day and not doing normal exercise. In previous generations when we were digging ditches or pitching hay, there was a type of what we would now call functional exercise where we're exercising the whole body. And that's what prevented...
...doctors. And they laugh at my jokes. But engineers, as a class, are possibly the best patients. They're logical and they're accustomed to the concept of consultation - they're interested in how the doctor thinks about their problem. They know how to use experts. If your orthopedist thinks about arthritis, for instance, in terms of friction between roughened joint surfaces, you should try to think about it, generally, in the same way. There is little use coming to him or her for help if you insist your arthritis is due to an imbalance between yin and yang...
Helluva nice guy, this football player - and big. His knee was the size of my head. It was an arthritic knee, as you would expect - a routine problem, like hundreds of others any orthopedist sees every year. Was I extra-nice to him, though, his being a star and all? Did I do anything different that day, just a little? I like to think not, always having tried never to be a "respecter of persons...
Putting a dislocated hip back in place, or "reducing the hip" in our jargon, requires a sedated patient. It is unquestionably the most athletically challenging of all medical procedures. Two people hold the patient down, the orthopedist climbs up on the stretcher, bends the knee, picks up the thigh and then uses a combination of delicate manipulation and great brute force to pop the hip back. My back always hurts for a week after I do one. Spasms of the huge muscles around the patient's hip must be controlled with intravenous sedation - or else the entire procedure...