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Podcast: Healthcare IT Today Interviews
Episode: Balancing Natural Treatments and Surgery for Orthopedic Conditions
Description: In this interview, Meredith Warner, MD, Founder of Warner Orthopedics & Wellness, discusses ways to avoid medication and surgery for osteoarthritis and other common conditions. She does surgery much less often than most orthopedists. Whether someone uses surgery and medications or is trying to avoid them, the key to health is proper mindset, exercise, diet, and sleep—a combination she calls MEDS.
Medical school has always been a venue for teaching the use of medicines and surgery rather than healthy habits, Warner says. She is a maverick through and through; As a military surgeon and veteran, she learned that "it's go...