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Guest Post

Wide Variation in Orthopaedic Access Among Medicaid Patients

August 22, 2019 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

OrthoBuzz occasionally receives posts from guest bloggers. This guest post comes from Christopher Dy, MD, MPH, co-author of a recently published JBJS study. It is no

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Editor's Choice Knee

Morbidly Obese Patients Should Lose ≥20 Pounds Prior to TKA

August 21, 2019 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

The obesity epidemic continues throughout much of the developed world. Among the morbidly obese (BMI ≥40 kg/m2), we have a group of patients in whom

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Editor's Choice Hand and Wrist Trauma

How Many X-Rays Does It Take to Treat a Distal Radial Fracture?

August 20, 2019 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

We orthopaedists obtain radiographs for many reasons—to diagnose an unknown problem, to determine the progress of healing, and occasionally because we follow X-ray “dogma” acquired

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Elbow Hand and Wrist Need to Know Shoulder

The Softer Side of Better Patient Outcomes

August 14, 2019 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

It goes almost without saying that a patient’s return to work after an orthopaedic injury or musculoskeletal disorder would correlate with the severity of the

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Editor's Choice Trauma

Polytrauma Patients Face Cancer Risk from Imaging Radiation

August 8, 2019 OrthoBuzz for Surgeons

Orthopaedic surgeons work with radiation in some capacity almost every day. We would struggle to provide quality patient care if it were not for the

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