Arthroplasty Perspective

• Machine Learning in Rheumatology: Beyond Clinical Instincts Recent examples of machine learning in rheumatology provide a promising framework for showing how its power can be harnessed in clinical care, says Karmela Kim Chan, MD.
  Hospital for Special Surgery, April 05, 2022
• AAOS 2022 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AAOS 2022
  Medscape Orthopedics, March 24, 2022
• Practice Guidelines Highlights From the Past Year Here are some updates on treating C diff, knee osteoarthritis, and STIs.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, March 08, 2022
• Osteoarthritis Phenotyping Makes Progress Karmela Kim Chan, MD, discusses recent efforts to phenotype osteoarthritis, which have not yet been applied successfully to match appropriate treatment to the appropriate patient population.
  Hospital for Special Surgery, January 20, 2022
• Managing Hip Pain: Clinicians Debate Readers weighed in on Dr Vega's management of a patient with hip pain. Here's the crowdsourced opinion.
  Medscape Family Medicine, September 16, 2021
• AAOS 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AAOS 2021
  Medscape Orthopedics, August 31, 2021
• Strange Object Lodged in Patient's Spine, Yet Jury Clears MD A trial reveals the source of a mysterious object left in a patient.
  Cooperative of American Physicians, July 12, 2021
• Battle of the Sexes: Who Gives Better Medical Care? Does physician gender affect quality of care? Dr Arghavan Salles takes a look at the evidence.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, March 01, 2021
• Helping Parents and Children Deal With a Child's Limb Deformity My decision to accept the risks to reap the benefits of surgery is small potatoes compared with the decisions that the parents of a child born with a deformed lower extremity must face.
  Medscape Pediatrics, February 25, 2021
• Experts Unravel the 'Mysteries of Wrist Motion' Dr Scott Wolfe discusses his award-winning research in wrist kinematics and arthroplasty, and a novel prosthetic device that recently received FDA approval.
  Hospital for Special Surgery, October 05, 2020
• Returning to the 'New Normal': Backlog of Elective Surgeries The COVID elective surgery ban affected many orthopedic surgeons and hospitals. Dr Bryan T. Kelly describes his experience in resuming elective procedures.
  Hospital for Special Surgery, July 31, 2020
• When Can We Open for Elective Surgeries?   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Valerie Rusch about determining when it might be safe to perform elective surgeries again, and what must be done to make it happen.
  WebMD, May 08, 2020
• AAOS 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AAOS 2020
  Medscape Orthopedics, March 25, 2020
• Bringing Humanity Back Is the 'Greatest Gift AI Can Give'   In this episode of Medicine and the Machine, Drs Topol and Verghese discuss the loss of humanity in medicine, and how AI offers an exciting opportunity to bring time and presence back to patient care.
  Medscape, January 02, 2020
• Malpractice Case: Dangers When Taking Over a Patient's Care Accepting a transfer patient means accepting the issues and medication that come with that patient. Failure to understand that can result in a lawsuit if something goes wrong.
  Cooperative of American Physicians, December 09, 2019
• Weight Cutoffs for Elective Surgeries: Bias or Economics? What drives weight-based cutoffs for elective surgeries? Dr Yoni Freedhoff finds that it may not be just old-fashioned weight bias.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, October 16, 2019
• Topol and Verghese on Where the Physical Exam Is Going   In this Medicine and the Machine podcast, Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese discuss the ritual and evolution of the physical exam and its inevitable--and exciting--integration with technology.
  Medscape, July 03, 2019
• Will 3D Printing Revolutionize Orthopedic Implant Surgery? Or is it a high-tech, high-cost solution in search of a problem? Dr Timothy Wright talks about the potential of additive manufacturing for orthopedics and the questions that remain.
  Hospital for Special Surgery, June 27, 2019
• Consensus Statement: Toward Opioid-Free Arthroplasty Amidst the ongoing opioid crisis, an expert panel convened to advise clinicians on how to manage postarthroplasty pain and limit the risk for addiction.
  Hospital for Special Surgery, March 28, 2019
• AAOS 2019 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AAOS 2019
  Medscape Orthopedics, March 11, 2019