The Pregnant Orthopaedic Surgeon: Risks and Precautions

Lauren E. Wessel, MD; Mary K. Mulcahey, MD; Karen M. Sutton, MD

Gender distribution in medical education has now equalized with roughly half of medical students being women. In contrast, orthopaedic surgery residency programs have lagged behind other subspecialties in recruiting women. Only 14 percent of orthopaedic residents and 6 percent of active AAOS fellows are female. It is important to address the factors that can be modified to reduce gender disparity within the field.

Arthroscopy Coding for Major Joints

Michael R. Marks, MD, MBA

When the American Medical Association (AMA) published the first edition of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) to standardize surgical procedure terminology and reporting, modern arthroscopy was in its infancy and no CPT code described it. As the number of arthroscopies for knee, shoulder, and hip conditions has exploded during the past few decades, CPT has attempted to address the reporting needs of these procedures.