Day Four of Week Two

This morning I was at Spine Colorado in clinic with Dr. Robert Wallach. Dr. Wallach went through college normally, but in return for “free” med school, he served eight years in the United States Army after he got out of med school. This was the first spine doc I’ve been in clinic with, and it was cool to see how they go about things, especially how nerves can send pain through certain parts of your body because of a particular vertebra that is messed up. In the afternoon I was in clinic with Dr. Robert Goodman at Durango Orthopedics. Dr. Goodman has been practicing for over 25 years, attended Princeton for his undergraduate degree, and med school at Princeton Medical School. The patients today were a mix between pre-op, post-op, and normal orthopedic outpatient, so I was able to kind of see the whole process.