Noah M. Raizman, MD, MFA

Learning from Colleagues

·April 16, 2018
·Noah M. Raizman, MD, MFA
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I am the only hand surgeon in my practice. While I talk with my partners often about shoulder and elbow cases and provide advice for them when they are initially managing hand and wrist patients, I have no one in my practice to bounce ideas off of when it comes to hand surgery. I think often of my upbringing in…

Community

The Value of Camaraderie

order cheap levitra I am very lucky to have a group of 50 hand surgeons, all of similar vintage out of fellowship, who are part of a travelling hand club. Multiple such clubs exist. We meet for drinks and discussion at the ASSH Annual Meeting, often at AAHS, PRS and AAOS meetings, and then have an “away” meeting on a…

Clinical

50 Years of Orthopaedic Progress

·March 29, 2017
·Noah M. Raizman, MD, MFA
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One of my mentors, well into his 70s at the time of my fellowship, when presented with a dorsal ganglion, still presented the traditional option of hitting it with a book. I saw him do it just once, but he flashed a grin, said, “I have a special book for this,” went back to his office and returned with an…

Ethics

The Golden Rule for Correct Coding

·November 3, 2016
·Noah M. Raizman, MD, MFA
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At a recent Specialty Day talk on managing difficult worker's compensation patients, an ASSH member had a poignant and arresting slide that simply said "Don't Be a Rapist." By that, he meant that it was easy to overbill, overcode, and perform unnecessary procedures on worker's compensation patients, and that we have a moral and ethical obligation to treat these patients, and…

Ethics

Often Wrong, but Never in Doubt

The popular trope of the confident, arrogant and swashbuckling surgeon is usually as far from representing reality as a Norman Rockwell painting is from representing modern urban life. "Often wrong, but never in doubt" is a phrase bandied about medical schools for laughs to describe the attitudes of those who practice surgery. I am often wrong, often in doubt, and…