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“Spine Surgeon: A Photo Essay 13 of”

To the general public, what surgeons do on a daily basis is as bizzare and mysterious to us as the headgear they wear while doing it.

Dr. Todd J. Albert is the president and chief spine surgeon at the Rothman Institute and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.  This is a photo essay for Orthopedics This Week about a humble and caring genius who cuts people’s bodies open and works on them as calmly and effectively as if he were carrying out a mundane task.