dave
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Pediatric Orthopaedic and Spine Surgeon - Opinions are my own and not those of my employer
Excited to give another aggressively interactive invited talk on pediatric scoliosis to University of Arizona tomorrow!
Always remember in treating Scoliosis (AIS) soft braces have not been shown to work nomatter how expensive and flashy they seem.
Manhattan On Alert Following Sunrise Unaccompanied By Languid Clarinet Music https://theonion.com/manhattan-on-alert-following-sunrise-unaccompanied-by-languid-clarinet-music/
Closing the symposium, Roberto Lent presents a new perspective on cognitive reserve, proposing that previously unknown brain connections may help explain neuroplasticity. #CogSci2026
So much has changed in Orthopaedics over the years but I think this may be our greatest progress.
I think of AI as a statistical tool that can use averaging to distill a massive amount of otherwise unfathomable information into a potentially consumable format at the individual level. In my mind it looks like this:
The Arizona Orthopaedic Society morns the loss of Dr. Speer a Universiry of Arizona icon. Dr. Speer passed away last night. He was living in Corvile in retirement afer his wite Isobel passed away a couple of years ago. He will be buried in Tennessee where he was from. His legacy is in the image.
Exited to serve as host site for Nth dimension scholars - I was one back in 2005
I use the iphone app Cheatsheet (or Apple notes) for my generally re-used pre-op plans instead of a paper folder now. apps.apple.com/app/id914665...
A Dutch artist spent 2.5 years on a single painting. The timelapse shows every layer, mistake, and correction that usually stays hidden.
Thinking about thinking is called metacognition and it’s one of the best signs that you are speaking to a true genius
One of my projects lately has been to write better test questions that you can prepare for just by seeing patients. This way the more patients you see the better you do on the test. Every patient encounter is a flash card.
The resisted elbow extension and forearm pronation test evaluates for pronator teres syndrome. Read: wikism.org/Resisted_Elb... Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=65dn... #PhysicalExam #SportsMedicine #Orthopedics #MedianNerve #Neurology
Thanks to everyone who came to my aggressively interactive resident lecture this am on Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis this morning!
Thanks to everyone who came to my aggressively interactive resident lecture this am on Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis this morning!
So Ortho is essentially the la croix of evidence: we open our journal in the same room as real evidence then use that journal. 😂
Phillip Ackerman is a quantitative psychologist whose research centers on adult learning and skill acquisition. He developed the “PPIK theory”, which stands for Intelligence as Process, Personality, Interests, and Intelligence as Knowledge.
You can improve outcomes by changing the effort you put into decisions.
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Please consider voting for my partners Maegen Wallace and Jessica Burns, MD, MPH, FAAOS for the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA) nominating comitee. surveymonkey-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/collector/46...
Russell Letson reviews THE FAITH OF BEASTS by @JamesSACorey: “I recommend treating this series as a single, hugely engaging, and sometimes disturbingly ironic story, to be read in order.”
The Faith of Beasts by James S.A. Corey: Review by Russell Letson - Locus
The Faith of Beasts, James S.A. Corey (Orbit 978-0-31652-567-1, 437pp, $32.00, hc) April 2026. Cover by Daniel Dociu. James S. A. Corey's The Faith of Beasts is the second volume of a sequence with the overall title The Captive's War – and I am suggesting right up front that you put off reading it until after you have read its predecessor, The Mercy of Gods. Do, however, read both of …Read More
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