A doctor pushes back against the false choice between regenerative medicine and surgery. The real approach: talk to patients about both options, explain what's likely to work, and pick what fits their specific situation.
What's the biggest misnomer in the regenerative medicine space? I think the biggest thing is that there are sort of some physicians who stand on a line and then they jump on one side or another. And so it's either you have these folks that are preaching just regenerative medicine, surgery is terrible, surgery is bad, surgery is bad. And then you have the surgeons who are saying, no, you got to have surgery. Got a surgery and stem cell doesn't work. I'm standing on the fence. And I think you have to sit with a patient and talk to them about what the options are, what the likelihood is that it's going to help, and what each of those treatments is likely to do for them based on what their specific situation is.
