“Spine Surgeon: A Photo Essay 17 of”
As a non-medical witness, the O.R. with its myriad of equipment, lights, blinking screens, wires, bizarre looking tools, etc., can easily cause one to forget that there is a living person under and at the center of all of it. For this reason I took this shot of a patient’s hand peaking out of the layers of coverings. To radically change the life of this single person is the only reason any of this is of any importance to both the doctors and the patients. I suspect that the doctors who never forget this most paramount fact are the most valuable in their field.
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.
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