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This is Chanel Bunker with the Becker Self
Care podcast, and I'm recording live at the
21st annual
Spine Orthopedic and Pain Management Driven ASC and
the Future of Spine Conference in Chicago. Right
now, I'm sitting with doctor Michael Redler, an
orthopedic surgeon at Connecticut Orthopedics.
Doctor Redler, thank you so much for joining
me today. Well, I really appreciate you having
us here, and, frankly, doing it on-site is
really a cool option. Of course. Well, to
get us started, could you please tell us
about yourself and share a bit about your
and organization?
I will be happy to. So I'm Michael
Redler. I am an orthopedic surgeon. I specialize
in sports medicine and upper extremity surgery.
I've been doing this for a long period
of time. I pride myself on patient care,
on staying on the cutting edge.
I'm the medical director at, our surgery center
in Fairfield County.
I also do medical mission work in Honduras
with 1 World Surgery, and, those are the
things I'm most proud of. I'm also passionate
about opioid sparing strategy. So it's all very
patient centric.
Got it. And thank you so much for
that introduction.
Now moving forward, based on your experience, how
has the patient provider dynamic changed over the
over time?
The challenges
these days
in terms of taking care of patients
are in part based on economics and is
part based on technology.
The
technology has allowed us to do a lot
of things in terms of investigating what's wrong
with the patient. We can do ultrasound. We
can do CT scans. We can do MRIs.
But I think probably the most
important patient interaction is one where it's the
physician, the patient talking to each other,
finding out what's going on, the physician examining
the patient. And I think that if you
stay
on those basics,
you're gonna do we're gonna do much better
in terms of
having a patient's gonna do well. I will
say that if you have a physician that
knows a patient,
not just as a broken part,
but as
a individual
and, one with a background and a history,
that patient will do better with exactly the
same care. So despite all the technology advances,
that interaction is still gonna reign supreme.
Got it. And speaking of technology,
how is new technology affecting patient care currently?
Well, look. There's a lot more that we
can do these days in terms of of
taking care of patients. We do more minimally
invasive surgeries. We do bigger, higher acuity surgeries,
as an outpatient.
We have great new anesthesia options so patients
can be comfortable.
We have ability to use biology to help
some of these more challenging issues heal,
and all that improves
the overall patient outcome.
What we have to do, frankly, is figure
out how to use all that new technology,
still run efficiently, and still not create a
situation where health care costs are out of
control.
Got it. And building on that, how can
we work smarter with new technology?
Well, it's interesting. I think that one of
the things that we need to come to
learn
is how we actually take care of patients.
What is the patient flow? If you have
a patient go into the surgical center, what
is gonna happen every minute that patient's in
the surgical center? There's a new company called
Ospotech we've been talking to that will monitor
what that patient does every step of the
way
during the whole surgical center experience. That'll allow
us to work smarter. It'll make for better
communication,
and it also helps the families know what's
going on. So if we can work more
efficiently in that regard, if we can have
a situation with a company called Replicare who
does some remote monitoring for if a rep
is not in the room being able to
use the right equipment, that can help. And
all those things will help us tremendously.
What helps tremendously also is a comfortable patient
during surgery.
And there are new companies like Gait Science
are coming out with a way of not
only having a regional nerve block, but they
can also use neuromodulation
so the patient can have a comfortable experience
for up to 30 days. All those technology
things are gonna allow us to improve our
patient care and hopefully not blow up the
whole health care dollar.
Well, doctor Riddler, I wanna thank you for
your time today. But before I let you
go, is there anything else that listeners should
know?
You know, we're sitting here at Becker's Health
Care, which is probably one of the most
storied
health care
meetings in the entire country. I keep coming
back over and over again because of the
quality of the speakers, the quality of the
staff,
the interactions,
and I think that it is something that
so much can be gained from in terms
of learning new technology,
interacting with colleagues.
And I think the Becker's health care staff,
once again, has done a fabulous job, and
it's a home run.
Love it. Well, doctor Redler, I wanna thank
you once again for your time today and
for joining me on the Becker's health care
podcast. Thank you. Thank you so much.