It’s D-Lightful, D-Licious, D-Lovely: It’s D-Vitamin

Alexandra E. Page, MD, FAAOS

With apologies to Cole Porter, “I feel a sudden urge to sing, the kind of ditty that invokes the …” virtues of vitamin D!.

Balancing Resident Training with Complication Risk and Liability

Paul S. Issack, MS, MD, PhD, FAAOS, FACS, FAOA

How do we balance resident training with the expected commission of errors and the associated complication risk? It starts with a shared responsibility between the teaching attending surgeon and the junior resident.

Even If It Ain’t Broke, We Can Still Make It Better

We should be the leaders who develop new techniques and put them into practice. Often there is no evidence for a new procedure, but we do innovative things that are sensible and will benefit patients.

Pride Ortho Leaves Lasting Impression on Medical Student

Lucas W. Ashley, MS

As a gay medical student from a rural town in North Carolina, without access to an orthopaedic surgery residency program at my school, I found the opportunity to attend the AAOS 2024 Annual Meeting in San Francisco both exhilarating and intimidating.

Social Determinants of Health, Payment Reform, and the Role of the Orthopaedic Surgeon

Tanmaya D. Sambare, MD; John Andrawis, MD, MBA; Ronald A. Navarro, MD, FAAOS, FAOA; Karl M. Koenig, MD, MS, FAAOS

Lack of access to housing, food, transportation, and employment has significant effects on both healthy patients and those managing chronic diseases.