Is the US losing Orthopedic talent and innovation? …Orthopedists answer

 
 
 
Reporter’s Notebook (written by Elizabeth Hofheinz @ OTW)
Dear OTW Reader:
Big theme this week…U.S. losing talent and innovation?
A concerned spine surgeon tells OTW, “We are losing our edge to foreign countries.
The Chinese in particular have a tremendous knowledge base and a great thirst for more education. It used to be that Chinese surgeons came here to learn, but in the next ten years we’ll be going over there to learn from them. They are a hard driving group…the type of surgeons I used to see here.”
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