Ep 030 - Orthopedic Surgery of the Spine with Dr. Kelley Banagan
The Undifferentiated Medical Student
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How Does the Practice of Orthopedic Surgery Change Based on Setting?
Inpatient versus outpatient is what I alluded to when we were talking about a typical week. So our outpatient experience with regard to practicing orthopedics, fine, is in the office settings. Those would be things like lumbar discs and anterior cervical dysctomy infusion where we take out a cervical disc and put a bone graft in place or total disc replacement. Some surgical centers around the country are doing these procedures for as long as 23 hours. And so that's clinic, day spent in clinic for us.
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