A short promotional/educational YouTube video by Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explaining how Pinnacle Integrative Orthopedics differs from traditional clinics: the practice emphasizes true healing and a holistic, multi-problem approach rather than treating single episodes. The speaker criticizes system incentives (insurance/reimbursement) that encourage one-issue, episodic care, cites that reimbursements in medicine have dropped 30% over the last 11 years, and argues Pinnacle avoids unnecessary surgeries and focuses on long-term patient wellbeing.
Questions this video answers
30% over the last 11 years.
How is Pinnacle Integrative Orthopedics different from a traditional clinic?
I think we're different because we actually care about healing you. It's not that your doctors don't care about healing you. They do. But really what they're focused on is treating you. There's a difference. Right? So treating you means we're gonna take care of this single problem that we see. So how many of us go to.
Our doctor's office.
And they're like. And you're like, well, my hips and my knees and my left shoulder hurt.
And they're like, I can take care.
Of one thing at a time. Part of that is because insurance is.
Only going to pay them for one thing at a time.
But remember, reimbursements.
In medicine have dropped 30% in the.
Last 11 years. Basically that the whole idea is that we can only take care of one episode at a time in the current system. And so that's what we care about. We don't want to give you a band aid. We don't want to give you a treatment like surgery, which can potentially take years, years off of your life and impact your quality of life so severely that you really regret it. We want you to avoid those things that are not good for you. If you need surgery, we will tell you that there are patients that come to us, that their problem is one that requires surgery. Even if you have to have a surgery, we're still better. We still care about healing you. But I'm going to tell you, 90%.
Of our patients.
Have been told they need surgery, and we treat them, and they didn't.
