The Upper Hand: Chuck & Chris Talk Hand Surgery Chuck and Chris

Chuck and Chris begin this episode with a discussion of ray resection and then pivot to discuss practice management and payer mix in our practices as well as the benefits and challenges of workers compensation.

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Chuck and Chris are joined by special guest Macy Stonner who brings her therapy expertise to the topic of finger fractures.  This episode will revisit common fractures and the therapist perspective to outstanding outcomes.

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Chuck and Chris answer a few listener- submitted questions and then take a deep dive into their approach to finger fractures with a specific focus on Kirshner wires, k-wires.

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Chuck and Chris welcome Ryan Nunley to the Podcast.  Ryan is a total joint surgeon who has an amazingly busy clinical practice.  We discuss practice efficiency, handling VIPs, and share updates on computer navigation and robotic surgery.  There is so much we can learn!

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Chuck and Chris discuss patients with dupuytrens disease (in office and in the OR) including our protocols for care after formal surgery. We also discuss some challenges with needle procedures in the office.  We touch on our trial of AI for clinic note generation and look forward to listener comments.  And finally, we touch on leadership with a deep dive on the HBR article: The New Rules of Executive Presence by Sylvia Ann Hewlett.  This article compares leadership criteria from 2012 to 2022 and the differences in priorities are great discussion points.

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Chuck and Chris catch up on with listener submitted questions and then discuss the volar approach to the scaphoid for scaphoid nonunions.

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