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KOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Andrew Taylor spoke about early retirement planning for physicians.

The AMA has accepted the addition of a new category I CPT code for second-level lumbar total disc replacement procedures, according to a press release.

Hospital for Special Surgery Florida has appointed Tara M. McCoy as CEO, according to a company press release.

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Jack M. Bert, MD, spoke about bundled payment systems for orthopedic providers to attract employers.

Characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and a low sense of personal accomplishment, the published literature has shown between 40% and 60% of orthopedic surgeons will experience episodes of burnout during their career.

Randomized controlled trials sit atop the research triangle as the best-quality evidence available in medical research. Using the best method to randomly assign patients in a trial is critical to account for sample size and multiple covariables.

Credit goes to Donald H. LaLonde, MD, FRCSC, at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, who helped debunk the idea that epinephrine is unsafe to use in digits and developed more comfortable methods of local anesthesia.

Physician wellness is a hot topic among health care workers. Burnout has been found to be common in physicians along with low job satisfaction, high stress and low quality of life rating.

In other articles for Orthopedics Today referenced at the end of this article, we explained that permanent life insurance, also called cash value life insurance, has tremendous tax, wealth accumulation, asset protection and estate planning benefits.

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, William R. Beach, MD, spoke about changes to evaluation and management coding and what qualifies for coding in 2023.