Dr. Eric Potts delivered an incredible presentation on "Navigating the Future." 🌟 Stay tuned for more updates by following the Spine Section. 🗓️ Save the date: 2025 Spine Summit in Tampa, FL, Feb 20-23, 2025! Cheerag Upadhyaya, MD, MBA, MSc, FAANS, FACS spinesection.org/2023-meeting-v…

Can we define "waste" in neurosurgery? If so, what steps should be taken to eliminate it? Check out our recent paper! Adam Leibold, MD MSc Ahilan Sivaganesan, MD World Neurosurgery Journal pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38749823/

Vascular breakfast club this morning: Oral boards style review on CC fistulas with Reid Gooch Anand Kaul, MD on the hot seat today #neurosurgery #medtwitter Ritam Ghosh

Hospital and healthcare consolidation leads to functional oligopolies in many cities. Prices don’t go down folks.

Our Stars Neurosurgery Residents presenting their research projects! Amazing innovative work Adam Leibold, MD MSc @Evan_fitchett #StevenGlener Jefferson Neurosurgery Jefferson Health Thomas Jefferson University

Was a great year, ready to be Chief now!

I'm obliged to quote Adam Smith here: "In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so." This excellent piece by Lanhee J. Chen in JAMA Health Forum shows how

Happy fourth from the vascular team! 🧠🩸

Spine surgery works. The right procedure, in the right patient, done well - can profoundly improve patients' lives. In our first ever video podcast, find our response to the "Goobie" video that made such a splash...and a hint of things to come... youtube.com/watch?v=KQsLHr…

Physician-owned hospitals often deliver better care at lower costs, but special interest groups block them from competing. Meanwhile, these groups continue to consolidate the market, destroying Americans' access and affordability. Congress should act to bring back competition and

#ONSVisualAbstract How Do the True Intraoperative Costs of Endoscopic #Diskectomy Compare With Microdiskectomy for Lumbar Disk Herniations? A Time-Driven Activity-Based Cost Analysis bit.ly/3AWzeEj by Adam Leibold, MD MSc et al Jefferson Health John H. Shin MD, MBA CNS Mohamed Zaazoue

Blaming physicians as ‘overpaid’ is not only misguided but also a blatant misunderstanding of reality. Physician compensation has decreased in real terms over the years, even as their workloads and administrative burdens have skyrocketed. Meanwhile, journalists and reporters,

Imagine if every time Target wanted to open a new store they had to go to the government to ask permission. Not only did they have to ask permission but their competitors like Walmart would be able to file objections to ensure that competition was kept to a minimum. Imagine that

Direct brain to speech neuroprosthesis gets a major upgrade. In a new Nature Neuroscience study, speech is directly streamed from sensorimotor cortex recordings in 80ms increments, enabling near real-time communication in a patient with severe paralysis.

This belief is literally why tech has failed at medicine. People are not pieces of code that can be simply optimized. Every doctor learns within a few months of practice that patients and medicine are not alway neat little algorithms and decision trees. Wild unpredictable shit

biology is where overconfident quants go to die

Thanks Johnson & Johnson MedTech for putting together a phenomenal pre-fellows #spine course! Great to connect w old friends, make new, practice techniques & explore new tech in lab. Getting even more excited to start Duke University spine fellowship in 2026! Duke Spine Muhammad Abd-El-Barr MD PhD FAANS Melissa Erickson, MD, MBA

i can't think of a non-cliche way to say this, but everyone who says having a kid is the best thing in the world is both correct and still somehow understating it.

What would happen if policymakers simply let physicians build? Dr. Anthony DiGiorgio says it best: “Give us our economic freedom. Get rid of Certificate of Need laws. End the moratorium on physician-owned hospitals. Just let doctors build.” The truth is, physicians don’t

I think it’s worth drilling down on what this would actually look like in practice. We spend hundreds of billions subsidizing healthcare, but most of that money flows to large corporations, hospitals and insurance companies, rather than to patients. If those funds were directed