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This is Chanel Bunker with the Becker Self

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Care podcast, and I'm recording live at the

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21st annual

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Spine Orthopedic and Pain Management Driven ASC and

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the Future of Spine Conference in Chicago. Right

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now, I'm sitting with doctor Michael Redler, an

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orthopedic surgeon at Connecticut Orthopedics.

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Doctor Redler, thank you so much for joining

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me today. Well, I really appreciate you having

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us here, and, frankly, doing it on-site is

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really a cool option. Of course. Well, to

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get us started, could you please tell us

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about yourself and share a bit about your

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and organization?

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I will be happy to. So I'm Michael

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Redler. I am an orthopedic surgeon. I specialize

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in sports medicine and upper extremity surgery.

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I've been doing this for a long period

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of time. I pride myself on patient care,

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on staying on the cutting edge.

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I'm the medical director at, our surgery center

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in Fairfield County.

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I also do medical mission work in Honduras

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with 1 World Surgery, and, those are the

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things I'm most proud of. I'm also passionate

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about opioid sparing strategy. So it's all very

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patient centric.

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Got it. And thank you so much for

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that introduction.

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Now moving forward, based on your experience, how

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has the patient provider dynamic changed over the

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over time?

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The challenges

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these days

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in terms of taking care of patients

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are in part based on economics and is

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part based on technology.

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The

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technology has allowed us to do a lot

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of things in terms of investigating what's wrong

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with the patient. We can do ultrasound. We

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can do CT scans. We can do MRIs.

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But I think probably the most

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important patient interaction is one where it's the

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physician, the patient talking to each other,

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finding out what's going on, the physician examining

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the patient. And I think that if you

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stay

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on those basics,

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you're gonna do we're gonna do much better

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in terms of

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having a patient's gonna do well. I will

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say that if you have a physician that

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knows a patient,

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not just as a broken part,

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but as

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a individual

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and, one with a background and a history,

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that patient will do better with exactly the

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same care. So despite all the technology advances,

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that interaction is still gonna reign supreme.

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Got it. And speaking of technology,

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how is new technology affecting patient care currently?

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Well, look. There's a lot more that we

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can do these days in terms of of

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taking care of patients. We do more minimally

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invasive surgeries. We do bigger, higher acuity surgeries,

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as an outpatient.

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We have great new anesthesia options so patients

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can be comfortable.

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We have ability to use biology to help

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some of these more challenging issues heal,

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and all that improves

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the overall patient outcome.

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What we have to do, frankly, is figure

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out how to use all that new technology,

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still run efficiently, and still not create a

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situation where health care costs are out of

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control.

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Got it. And building on that, how can

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we work smarter with new technology?

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Well, it's interesting. I think that one of

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the things that we need to come to

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learn

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is how we actually take care of patients.

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What is the patient flow? If you have

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a patient go into the surgical center, what

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is gonna happen every minute that patient's in

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the surgical center? There's a new company called

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Ospotech we've been talking to that will monitor

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what that patient does every step of the

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way

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during the whole surgical center experience. That'll allow

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us to work smarter. It'll make for better

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communication,

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and it also helps the families know what's

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going on. So if we can work more

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efficiently in that regard, if we can have

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a situation with a company called Replicare who

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does some remote monitoring for if a rep

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is not in the room being able to

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use the right equipment, that can help. And

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all those things will help us tremendously.

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What helps tremendously also is a comfortable patient

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during surgery.

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And there are new companies like Gait Science

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are coming out with a way of not

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only having a regional nerve block, but they

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can also use neuromodulation

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so the patient can have a comfortable experience

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for up to 30 days. All those technology

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things are gonna allow us to improve our

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patient care and hopefully not blow up the

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whole health care dollar.

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Well, doctor Riddler, I wanna thank you for

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your time today. But before I let you

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go, is there anything else that listeners should

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know?

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You know, we're sitting here at Becker's Health

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Care, which is probably one of the most

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storied

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health care

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meetings in the entire country. I keep coming

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back over and over again because of the

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quality of the speakers, the quality of the

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staff,

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the interactions,

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and I think that it is something that

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so much can be gained from in terms

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of learning new technology,

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interacting with colleagues.

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And I think the Becker's health care staff,

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once again, has done a fabulous job, and

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it's a home run.

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Love it. Well, doctor Redler, I wanna thank

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you once again for your time today and

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for joining me on the Becker's health care

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podcast. Thank you. Thank you so much.