A short YouTube conversation (transcript excerpt) between Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter and another speaker about patient autonomy in medical decisions. The speakers describe Pinnacle’s approach to holistic orthopedics: offering patients options including functional medicine, orthobiologics, and modern orthopedic programs so patients feel they have a choice. The clip emphasizes frustration when clinicians decide without asking patients.
They tell me they're going to do this thing and they don't even ask me if that's what I want to do. And I feel like I don't have a choice.
So at Pinnacle, typically our new patient visits are between 45 minutes or an hour. And today I spent a lot of time talking to this really wonderful woman. She's been my patient for a long time. During the conversation we were mentioning how holistic orthopedics and our goal is to give patients a choice, to give them the options, to give them all of the. The most modern option for functional medicine. Orthobiologics. Orthopedics and.
To combine those into a program. And she was excited about this and she said, you know what? I so often go to my doctor's appointment and they tell me they're going to do this thing and they don't even ask me if that's what I want to do. And I feel like I don't have a choice. Well, now you do.
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