Author: Dr. Ozer
Date: 9/27/2004 7:08 pm PDT
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Minimally Invasive Percutaneous Surgery is now the state-of-the-art in nearly every surgical specialty...including podiatry. These procedures, as you well know, are harder to do and not easy to learn. MIS practitioners are now able to correct EVERY type of bunion, bunionette, hammertoe, bunionette, bone spur, plantarflexed metatarsal, heel spur, haglunds deformity, etc. using these techniques. It is quite apparent that you don't care enough for your patients to obtain the training necessary to perform these specialized procedures. It is just human nature that people don't want to learn new techniques because they are more comfortable with the "old" procedures. Most traditionally trained doctors realize that patients will 99% of the time opt to have their foot deformity corrected with MIS procedures so fail to even inform the patient about these procedures for fear of the economic loss they would face. Why would any of your patients even consider having traditional foot surgery with long scars, stitches, pins, wires, screws, casts and surgical shoes when they could have a pin-head sized puncture and no stitches, pins, wires, screws, casts and surgical shoes? Patients are increasingly demanding their surgery be performed via minimally invasive techniques. MIS procedures require no hospital stays, no general anesthesia, no medical clearance, no pre-op blood tests, no chest x-ray, no EKG, no post-op physical therapy and no need to avoid showering and bathing. Don't hide from this technology...learn it...your patient's will thank you. |
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