Dr. Vince Leone explains when orthopedic surgeons should refuse knee surgery. Bone-on-bone knees and patients too old for good outcomes often shouldn't be operated on. The best surgeons know when to say no.
how the pitfalls you would feel— you would see or anticipate doctors may fall into if, if they're not doing this correctly?
Because there are some cases that are just beyond, you know, you're bone on bones. Doc, I'm too old to have surgery, and, uh, my— but their knee is completely bone on bone. Some of those cases you just can't help anymore. They're just too far gone. So that That is a pitfall that you gotta— you have to be clinically, uh, intellectual enough, how I wanna phrase that, that you know which are the right cases to take on and which are to say, nope, this one needs to go to surgery, or this one is too far gone.
