A week or so ago, I saw Mary Lou, a 73 yo woman from Hendersonville, NC back for follow-up for her severe scoliosis.  Her curves have not progressed since her last visit, but her quality of life has continued to worsen, with husband reporting that she spends 70% of her time in a very special […]

Feb 2 2015 Dear Hey Clinic Team,   Ashlee, Tracy, Rachel and of course Dr. Hey,   I can’t thank the entire Hey Clinic Team enough for providing me so much compassionate care.  I was in so much pain, yet once I arrived at the clinic I immediately felt relief as everyone took on my […]

As a surgeon, you learn a lot during medical school, residency, fellowships, courses, conferences, scientific articles, colleagues in societies like the Scoliosis Research Society, and books.  But probably the biggest “teacher” is experience – experience listening to, and caring for patients.  For the last 10 years at Hey Clinic, and almost 10 years before that […]

We had great clinic yesterday, with lots of thankful 6 week postop visits from our pre-Christmas scoliosis “blitz” we had.  It was so great to see so many precious teens and their parents back for follow-up with kids back to school, looking great and feeling great.  We’ve also done a bunch of revision scoliosis and […]

This week marks a special time for Hey Clinic — our 10 year anniversary for opening up our doors as a lifelong scoliosis center!  Today is the first day I’ve had a few minutes to sit down and reflect on that, after a very busy several weeks.  The text that I got this morning was […]