Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter trained for 13 years total: 4 years undergrad, 4 years at OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine in Tulsa, then 5 years orthopedic residency in Columbus. Most surgeries take 1–2 hours; his longest was 8 hours for a complex elbow fracture. He does bone marrow stem cell procedures 5–7 times a week in his office.
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Four years undergraduate + four years medical school + five years orthopedic residency (including one year internship).
OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine in Tulsa.
Columbus, Ohio.
About 1–2 hours.
Eight hours (repairing a severe elbow fracture).
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Doctor Schachter, how long did it take for you to become an orthopedic surgeon?
It's a pretty long road. So it's four years of university and.
Then you do four years of medical school. I went to OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine in Tulsa. And then you do five years of orthopedic surgery residency. I did my orthopedic surgery residency in Columbus, Ohio. That's a year of internship and then four years of surgical training. Most people do an extra year of fellowship, but I came straight to Wichita Falls and started practicing.
What's the longest procedure you've ever done?
Longest procedure I've ever done was eight hours. Typically orthopedic surgery procedures in adult reconstructive.
And sports like I do is a little bit.
It's not as long a procedure. Our procedures average between an hour and.
Two hours for most things. But I've done an eight hour surgery and it was fixing a terrible elbow fracture.
What are the chances of someone dying in a non emergency case?
So very low. Anesthesia is very safe. Obviously surgery in the United States is really safe.
We do a lot of surgery.
That's part of what we want to.
Do less of here at Pinnacle.
Here in the office, when we do our office procedures, it's virtually zero. In the operating room, the statistics range from between 1 and 3%.
There is a statistical risk, it's just very low.
Do you ever get nervous during office procedures?
No, I never get nervous during office procedures. I do think a lot about my patients. So when I'm a lot of times.
After a procedure I'll wonder how the patient's gonna do. I'll have a lot of hopes. I really my patients and so it.
Gets comes down to just wanting somebody to do so well, especially when we're.
Doing cool things like stem cell and PRP and some of the procedures that we do here in the office.
We want it so badly for these people that sometimes I lose a little.
Bit of sleep over that.
But no, don't get nervous about the.
Procedures when we're doing them.
How often do you perform stem cell procedures?
We do stem cell procedures very frequently. It's the most common thing that we do here in the office. We do bone marrow, aspirate, concentrate and those we will do typically between five.
