OCCUPATIONAL INJURY AMONGST ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS (Orthopedics This Week)
Manish Sethi, M.D., assistant professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is enlightening his colleagues about the injuries that can occur in the OR. He and his team set out to determine the prevalence and types of injuries that orthopedic surgeons sustained in the workplace.
Dr. Sethi and his co-authors developed and distributed electronic surveys to every orthopedic surgeon in Tennessee—495 individuals. A total of 140 surveys were returned, with representation from all orthopedic...
