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Dr. Zeeshan Sardar: It’s very few centers across the country that I would say offer true, comprehensive, complex spine care. NewYork-Presbyterian is one of them.
On-Screen Title: At Och Spine at NewYork-Presbyterian, we take an individualized approach to every spine condition
Dr. Lawrence Lenke: We have leading physicians in every field of medicine and surgery related to spine care. We now have the collaboration between two of the top medical schools in the country, Columbia and Weill Cornell Medicine.
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Dr. Roger Härtl: The whole idea behind Och Spine is to bring all those individuals and all the subdisciplines that take care of spine problems together and have them work together, communicate, and really provide then care that is centered on the patient.
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Dr. Zeeshan Sardar: My goal is really to put everything together. It’s to see what problems does the patient complain of. What do I see when I talk to them, examine them. And then what does the imaging show.
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Dr. Roger Härtl: Och Spine and NewYork-Presbyterian hospital is a multidisciplinary effort. That includes, on the one hand, surgeons of course. On the other hand, the majority of doctors that we work with are actually nonoperative doctors.
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Dr. Zeeshan Sardar: I think the biggest misconception patients have, not just surgery, about surgeons in general, is that if you end up in a surgeon’s office, you're going to be offered surgery, and that’s all they’re going to talk about. If it’s a problem that can be dealt in a minimally invasive way, then that’s the first approach we’re going to choose. A lot of specialists, including spine surgeons, don’t treat complex spinal deformities. We treat these patients regularly. So for us now, we have established protocols on how to optimize these patients before surgery, how to take care of them during surgery and how to take care of them after surgery. Things that we were doing seven years ago are not what we did three years ago, and are not what we’re doing today. Even my practice from last year to today is different.
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Dr. Roger Härtl: What I perceive as the greatest satisfaction working at Och Spine at NewYork-Presbyterian hospital is working together with my multidisciplinary colleagues and partners and trying to get patients back to a healthy spine and to a better spine.
On-Screen Title: Our drive to innovate spine care and improve patient outcomes never stops
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