Dr. Erich G. Anderer

But I generally see it as a positive.

I mean, clearly there's some negatives and just obviously the access to sort of voluminous amounts of information that is sometimes hard to

to verify can be somewhat problematic.

But I think on balance, it's been a good thing generally.

So that would be one.

As a surgeon, it's hard not to talk about tech, right?

And so that's another thing I think that I'm super excited about.

robotics specifically in spine, but even sort of AI applications to sort of help us understand who are the right patients for surgery, how, you know, to predict, you know, how patients are going to do afterwards, where to send them to recover the best, you know, that's rehab facility, home, that kind of thing.

You know, so I think it's really revolutionized the way that we look at surgery and who should be having surgery and how best to apply that.

And then, you know, the other thing I think that's sort of out there, and this is, you know, at the government level, but all the way down to, you know, to sort of this, the information sources that I was talking to, talking about earlier, I think there's a lot of sort of focus on the root cause of disease.

And, you know, again, I mean, sort of a lot of chatter out there about,

you know, about that.

But I would say that a focus on that specifically, sort of divorced from, you know, all the other kind of, you know, either political, social, cultural things that can be sometimes associated with that discourse.

I think that's also on balance a positive thing for patients and physicians, because I think that

you know, the reality is who doesn't want to get at what is it that's making us sick and how do we stay healthy?

And, you know, even as a surgeon, how do we keep people from having spine surgery?

You know, there's always going to be a need for people to have surgery, to have, you know, some sort of structural problem fixed.

But the hope is that we're really going to be applying that, you know, in sort of

very focused cases.

And for the vast majority of people that experience the very, very common symptom of back pain, right?