By now, if you pay any attention to the news, you have been barraged by reports in the media that the United States is embroiled in an “opioid crisis” or “opioid epidemic.” If you are on pain medications for acute pain (less than 3 months’ duration) or...
What’s Destroying Orthopedics?—The Three O’s (and one A). by Dale D. Dalenberg MD One of the reasons I became an orthopedic surgeon (as opposed to a physician with less of a procedure-based and more of an office-based practice, like a family practitioner or an...