Category: Physician/Surgeon

Speaking engagement at International Meeting

Dr Lanny May 10, 2012

I was pleased to accept a speaking engagement for September 27th as the Presidential guest speaker for Dr. Tom Sampson.  This is the annual meeting of the International Society of Hip Arthroscopy in Boston, MA.   He said I have been identified as probably the first surgeon to perform hip arthroscopy which was in the 1980’s.  He suggested I speak on discovery and invention in orthopedic surgery.  I was so pleased, I wrote out my speech last night.  I look forward to the engagement.  This is not the title, but it could be “An old dog, teaching young dogs new tricks”.

Physician/Surgeon

Dr Lanny March 24, 2012
“30 years at the bedside” circa 1980
“30 years at the bedside” circa 1980

In the course of my practice I was one of the pioneers in arthroscopic surgery. This resulted in hundreds of surgeon visitors, such that Ingham Medical Center in Lansing created the first operating room dedicated to arthroscopic surgery including a glass wall for visitors to comfortably observe surgery.

Arthroscopic Suite Ingham Medical Center
Arthroscopic Suite Ingham Medical Center

First and foremost I am a physician/surgeon. No matter a physician’s special interest, the medical license says physician/surgeon. In the course of my medical practice, medicine became very specialized, me included. I went from medical doctor, to board certified orthopedic surgeon to arthroscopic surgeon. My business card indicated such. I did not go so far as to do only left knees and right elbows. When I saw this unfolding, I changed my business card my roots, a “new” specialty called Physician/Surgeon.

 

 

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