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Covid-19 Update: April 29, 2020

The office is open for any hand and upper extremity emergency: please call 415 925-0501. The office is decontaminated with bleach daily, we all wear a mask, and give you a mask. Handwashing is routine and frequent. We are open for routine consultations: we are equipped to give you a telemedicine consultation, just give us a call. Here is a page I created if you want can't buy a commercial surgical mask, but want to make your own.

Covid-19 Update: March 23, 2020

The office is open.. We have been very proactive in our response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This is the fourth week of our heightened hygiene: we monitor both our staff and patients for fever; all the staff wear masks and we give the patients masks for all in-office visits; 20 second handwashing before and after each patient visit; and telemedicine followups via Zoom when appropriate. If you have any questions about your hand problem and the pandemic, please call the office.

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This site is designed to give my patients accurate, detailed, scientific information about hand problems, so they are empowered to better manage their own healthcare. I have written all the information on this site in clear, simple English, with great illustrations so that it is easy to understand. We only see 12 patients per day (most surgeons see 30-60), so I have time to spend with you to really understand you and your hand problem. I look forward to serving you.

I am a nationally-recognized expert in managing post-operative pain with minimal opioids (often but incorrectly called "narcotics"). I have delivered scientific papers on this topic at two national meetings in 2014 (AAOS and ASSH), two scientific papers at the 2017 American Society for Surgery of the Hand, and a poster on my pain management won Best Poster of 2017 at that same meeting. If you are looking for the report on the national symposium I organized on Managing Surgical Pain at the annual meeting of the American Academy for Orthopedic Surgeons, click on the link. The transcript of the podcast on pain is here.

 

 

 

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