Chief of #TJA @Yale. Specialist in Direct Anterior #DAA #Hip #Surgery, #HipReplacement, #KneeReplacement, #Author, #Researcher, #Arthritis, #Fracture Care.
Jan 8, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I saw patients in the office this week, wearing an #N95 and Goggles. One patient remarked that such precaution was “just overblown, because #COVID is so mild”.
“What?” I said. “People are indeed sick and dying, including a recent patient on our service.”
Pt: “But it’s mild.”
Our hospital and hospital system, one of the largest in the nation, has almost 25-30% of all admitted patients with #COVID19. Deaths continue. Elective inpatient surgeries are being cancelled.
Profound disruption of our ability to care for the population.
“But it’s mild”
Dec 22, 2019 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
I have seen many physicians on #MedTwitter and #OrthoTwitter dispute this author’s allegation that physicians are “keeping prices high” in #Healthcare. This is patently false, at least with regard to procedural reimbursement.
Our research groups at @UnivOrtho and @OrthoAtYale retrospectively studied @CMSGov#CMS#Medicare reimbursements for Orthopaedic procedures across specialties over a period of 16 years.
