Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter (speaker) reflects on surgical safety in an orthopedic center of excellence and proposes offering interventions to help patients become healthier before surgery — potentially avoiding unnecessary operations. The speaker frames surgery as a last-resort option on a spectrum of care and emphasizes institutional support for improving outcomes.
If we're doing too many surgeries on patients who really aren't healthy enough, then maybe we can start to offer.
We do have a very safe surgical system here in the United States in the Orthopedic center of Excellence. We're always striving to improve our surgical outcomes. That is number one goal. And I will say that my hospital system is 100% on board with anything to make surgery safer or better. But even in the best situation, we have patients who have painful and debilitating complications. And there's several reasons why that happens. And so that got me thinking. Well, if we're doing too many surgeries on patients who really aren't healthy enough, then maybe we can start to offer to help patients get healthier and maybe even avoid doing a surgery altogether. With surgery as sort of at the end of a spectrum of care.
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