Since 1985 as a second year medical student at Harvard, I've been interested in clinical research and statistics. It was in that year that I got first copy of SAS PC on 15 floppy discs and installed it on my new IBM xt computer w the little green monochrome screen and massive 20mb hard drive. […]

Saw MD yesterday in clinic who had referred a 50 Yo patient w post-polio syndrome w severe scoliosis and severe pain. Was seen at an academic medical center by spine surgeon who told patient "you are too old for scoliosis surgery!". She continues to suffer. This patient below had kyphoscoliosis surgery this morning. She is […]

Double curve also w 66 degrees of kyphosis.T3-L3 instrumentation and fusion w OsteotomiesSurgical time: 3 hrs 12 min Complications: noneEbl: 350 ccBlood transfused: none. Correction: very good.

Friday was busy in clinic as usual, with lots of smiles and happy reunions with our guests, including many of our adolescent and young adults back for follow-up after scoliosis and/or kyphosis surgery. Taylor, one of our teenage postop scoliosis guests told her mom that she wanted to give me a “BIG HUG” when she […]