Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter performed 15,000 surgeries over 15 years as a high-volume orthopedic surgeon. He now questions whether some joint replacements were necessary, wondering if non-surgical treatments could have prevented surgery in less-severe cases.
About 15,000 surgeries.
Chairman of a major orthopedic program and of an orthopedic center of excellence for joint replacement in Wichita Falls.
What if we could really make an impact in patients symptoms without this major surgery? I have been a high volume orthopedic surgeon for a long time. I've been the chairman of a major orthopedic program and an orthopedic center of excellence for joint replacement in Wichita Falls. It's been a great journey. I've done about 15,000 surgeries over the last 15 years. But as I was doing those surgeries, and I love what I do, but as I was doing those surgeries, I found myself looking at some of the joints that we were replacing and thinking to myself, man, this is maybe not as severe as as I would have preferred for joint replacements. I mean, obviously we didn't have another way to remedy those symptoms for those patients at that time. But I found myself over and over thinking, man, what if we could really make an impact in patients symptoms without this major surgery?
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