First endoscopic thoracic discectomy Jefferson Health . Thx to JackJalloMD for help/support and bringing spinal endoscopy to Jefferson Neurosurgery 8mm incision.. home the next morning. Medtronic navigation for reproducible precision. No chest tube, no multi-level fusion. A “value leap”

Congrats to everyone in our spine economics research group Jefferson Neurosurgery for a great showing at the CNS meeting in DC. Kudos to Sara Thallheimer & Advith Sarikonda for giving 2 podium presentations! AANS/CNS Spine Section Ashwini Sharan, MD Pascal Jabbour MD, FAANS, FACS, FAHA AANS ROBERT H ROSENWASSER

There has never been competition, based on outcomes achieved per dollar spent, for elective surgery in this country One reason: hospitals/surgeons don't know their own costs. Is it time for transparency? See this VuMedi for my take: rb.gy/zenhy Jefferson Neurosurgery

Great work, kyleeshivok ! Jefferson Neurosurgery

Heading to #SouthKorea to spend a week with Dr CW Park, a pioneer of biportal spinal endoscopy #UBE Spine surgery is changing as we know it Jefferson Neurosurgery VUMC Neurosurgery Arthrex Spine Spineology Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery John H. Shin MD Muhammad Abd-El-Barr MD PhD FAANS Jefferson Health Ashwini Sharan, MD AANS/CNS Spine Section

How much does that new fancy toy ACTUALLY add to the true costs of a surgery? Time-driven activity-based costing can shed real light. Great job by Advith Sarikonda and Jefferson Neurosurgery resident Adam Leibold, MD MSc VUMC Neurosurgery AANS/CNS Spine Section John H. Shin MD Ashwini Sharan, MD Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS)

Congrats to rockstar Jefferson Neurosurgery PGY5 resident Adam Leibold, MD MSc for winning a prestigious research grant from the Cervical Spine Research Society ! Jefferson Health AANS/CNS Spine Section Ashwini Sharan, MD Pascal Jabbour MD, FAANS, FACS, FAHA rosenwasser

Thank you to the Cervical Spine Research Society for giving us a platform to discuss time-driven activity-based costing and value analytics And thanks to Jefferson Neurosurgery and Jefferson Health for being a real-world laboratory for value innovations! Srinivas Prasad, MD, MS, FAANS, FACS rosenwasser John H. Shin MD AANS/CNS Spine Section Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

I’m a surgeon. Do you think I get paid for the good that I do? Or for how much I do? Check out this latest episode of the @MotionSurgery for the answer: youtu.be/apF9Cnwi200

I asked AI to paint a picture of what our healthcare system “feels like”. This is what OpenAI’s Dall-E came up with. Check out this latest @MotionSurgery episode to see how we can solve this problem: youtu.be/cgt-uIdSjtk VUMC Neurosurgery Martin H. Pham, MD Ashwini Sharan, MD Jefferson Neurosurgery

Proximity to AGI should not be measured by the performance of models, but by the depth of our introspection. The more we ask “What does it mean to be human?” … “What is my identity?” … “What is creativity?” … “What exactly is an original thought?” … the closer we are to AGI.

“Try to draw a flowchart of a patient’s journey from initial diagnosis to final resolution… it’s a hornet’s nest. It’s like a street market where every vendor wants to sell you as much of their stuff as possible. ‘Hey you! … Buy some of this!” shorturl.at/gnin7

I’ve made a move! Jefferson Neurosurgery is rarefied air, and I will miss it dearly Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) is now in #Naples, thanks to Sheeraz Qureshi, and I’ve joined to help build the spine program I’m doing it with Nick Clark… my brother-in-arms and former co-fellow Wish us luck!