Doctors who do not accept all patients, regardless of race, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, social or economic status, in my opinion, are in the wrong profession and should simply not be seeing patients. Recent behavior by one physician at a local medical CME con...

Trying to find a second opinion for your medical or surgical diagnosis can be not only a frustrating and lengthy process, but also a terrifying experience. How do you find the "right doctor"? Can you really trust your referring doctor to send you to someone with perhap...

Spine surgery is not what it used to be even as recently as 2000s. Rapid technological advances in spine surgery and development of new (mainly minimally invasive) techniques have elevated spine care and spine surgery to levels hard to keep up with for most spine surge...

There is no such thing as a "simple" fusion or "easy" surgery. Every spine surgery, whether a laminectomy, single level fusion, or complex scoliosis reconstruction has its own challenges and should be patient focused to each individual. For example, patient's spine ca...