Dr. Amanda North

employee as being a hospital employee but still being in private practice I think it can be a little vague to people am I in private practice if I'm not an academic maybe but when we look at the traditional the old school solo practitioner that almost doesn't exist anymore.

And I tell the story all the time that when I was growing up, my pediatrician lived across the street and had an office attached to his house. And if we were sick, my mom would call him and he'd go run over and open his office and we'd go see him. Nobody does that anymore, right? Or almost nobody does.

And I tell the story all the time that when I was growing up, my pediatrician lived across the street and had an office attached to his house. And if we were sick, my mom would call him and he'd go run over and open his office and we'd go see him. Nobody does that anymore, right? Or almost nobody does.

And I tell the story all the time that when I was growing up, my pediatrician lived across the street and had an office attached to his house. And if we were sick, my mom would call him and he'd go run over and open his office and we'd go see him. Nobody does that anymore, right? Or almost nobody does.

And I think a lot of people who are in solo private practice are running more concierge practices rather than the traditional old school way of, you know, hanging up a shingle and opening your practice. There are a lot of policy reasons why that's happened over time. And so we've been following that trend since the census started in 2014.

And I think a lot of people who are in solo private practice are running more concierge practices rather than the traditional old school way of, you know, hanging up a shingle and opening your practice. There are a lot of policy reasons why that's happened over time. And so we've been following that trend since the census started in 2014.

And I think a lot of people who are in solo private practice are running more concierge practices rather than the traditional old school way of, you know, hanging up a shingle and opening your practice. There are a lot of policy reasons why that's happened over time. And so we've been following that trend since the census started in 2014.

And I think as we use our census data for advocacy purposes, the fact that so many urologists are now employees, and it's so hard. to be in certainly solo private practice, but in private practice at all is really interesting.

And I think as we use our census data for advocacy purposes, the fact that so many urologists are now employees, and it's so hard. to be in certainly solo private practice, but in private practice at all is really interesting.

And I think as we use our census data for advocacy purposes, the fact that so many urologists are now employees, and it's so hard. to be in certainly solo private practice, but in private practice at all is really interesting.

And, you know, it also has led us to ask more business related questions like regarding private equity acquisition of urology practices, for example, to try to understand how that's going to impact practice in the future, because it's something that we're starting to see now. And we need to be on the forefront of understanding what that means for the

And, you know, it also has led us to ask more business related questions like regarding private equity acquisition of urology practices, for example, to try to understand how that's going to impact practice in the future, because it's something that we're starting to see now. And we need to be on the forefront of understanding what that means for the

And, you know, it also has led us to ask more business related questions like regarding private equity acquisition of urology practices, for example, to try to understand how that's going to impact practice in the future, because it's something that we're starting to see now. And we need to be on the forefront of understanding what that means for the

Well, I'll take that one because it goes back to how we structure the census every year. So we actually have a spreadsheet with rotating clinical topics that get asked on a cyclical basis. And so endourology and stones was up for this year. And then we partner with the Endourological Society and the data committee members who do endourology to solicit questions that are specific to endourology.

Well, I'll take that one because it goes back to how we structure the census every year. So we actually have a spreadsheet with rotating clinical topics that get asked on a cyclical basis. And so endourology and stones was up for this year. And then we partner with the Endourological Society and the data committee members who do endourology to solicit questions that are specific to endourology.

Well, I'll take that one because it goes back to how we structure the census every year. So we actually have a spreadsheet with rotating clinical topics that get asked on a cyclical basis. And so endourology and stones was up for this year. And then we partner with the Endourological Society and the data committee members who do endourology to solicit questions that are specific to endourology.

So you'll see in addition to the question about double J stents was a question about laser acquisition and trying to understand how quickly practices across the country are picking up new technology? And are rural hospitals picking up new technology or only academic centers? So these specific questions came from our endourology colleagues.

So you'll see in addition to the question about double J stents was a question about laser acquisition and trying to understand how quickly practices across the country are picking up new technology? And are rural hospitals picking up new technology or only academic centers? So these specific questions came from our endourology colleagues.

So you'll see in addition to the question about double J stents was a question about laser acquisition and trying to understand how quickly practices across the country are picking up new technology? And are rural hospitals picking up new technology or only academic centers? So these specific questions came from our endourology colleagues.

But the idea to put stones on this year's census, it was... It was Stone's turn to be on the census. So you'll see that there are different clinical topics. We try to do some that are related to hot topics in urology. For example, we recently asked about transgender care because transgender care has been a hot topic that was on last year's census. We felt that it was time to ask more about that.