orthopedics

Ie, in my understanding the ER is often a loss-leader for a hospital that serves to get patients into higher-total-reimbursement clinics such as GI, cardiology, and orthopedics.

Only doctors around will be those who are highly specialized in orthopedics, neurology, etc.

Finding somebody that's worth a shit is basically impossible to do in any sensible way, even for something as straightforward as orthopedics -- my journey towards shoulder surgery has been ridiculous to the point of farce.

For example: the most chosen approach for robotics in orthopedics is assisted surgery, where you move the tool and the robot blocks you from making bad moves.

There’s so much creative building in medicine, from what’s done in orthopedics with rebuilding joints (often using a patients existing tissue with new hardware) or with reconstructive surgery, etc.

The technology isn\'t difficult, just a bunch of algorithms organized properly: cardiovascular, neurological, orthopedics, etc.

Yes, orthopedics has gone down this road.

No worries, I just have to imagine the downvotes are coming from people who aren't familiar with orthopedics, otherwise I don't see why they'd downvote...

Your story reminds me of my current struggle with a massive medical company in orthopedics and when I learned to never say the word hack again.

Why isn't ultrasound used in orthopedics?

Something like prosthetic orthopedics, maybe?

Veterinarian specialized in orthopedics.

Orthodontics is simply “making a retainer” the same way orthopedics is simply “putting screws in a leg”.

I'd think orthopedics could provide very clear and quick resolutions for patients; hip replacement is known as the "surgery of the [previous] century" for having such clear quality of life improvement.

The technology isn't difficult, just a bunch of algorithms organized properly: cardiovascular, neurological, orthopedics, etc." Actually, people with good qualifications and lots of funding have been working on those algorithms for more than two decades.

In my hospital we have ample experience with another technique using polypropylene sheets for defect coverage, popularized in Brazil orthopedics as "Figueiredo's technique", which is in practice an extension of common techinques for temporary closure of abdominal wall ("Bogota's bag").

Orthopedics is inherently translational.