Dr. Erich G. Anderer

I see growth as providing care for people where they are, where they live.

And a lot of opportunities out there for that.

And again, just to use our example, it used to be that if you wanted complex spine surgery with robotics and all the bells and whistles, you had to cross the river.

You had to go into Manhattan to do that.

And, you know, since we've had this relationship and basically have built, you know, this NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn, which is essentially

you know the same care and we get you whatever you're doing we're doing in manhattan um theoretically we're going to be trying to be doing the exact same thing in brooklyn um and the goal really is to provide the same level of care um in in the context that you know where you live you know with your families with your community without you having to actually travel for it

So, yeah, I think that's that's the biggest opportunity for growth.

It's because there's so many places out there where that's the case, where they just don't have that access to the same level of care.

You have to be sent into some like tertiary academic medical center.

And I think that the onus should be on these medical centers to go out there and to and to build the resources in the communities that people live in.

Yeah, I mean, you know, I'd say that most of the headwinds are sort of infrastructural, right?

I mean, you're certainly not going to get a lot of, you know, headwinds from people.

You know, everywhere we've gone in the community where we've given talks in the community, people are, you know, generally very, very happy about what's going on.

And oftentimes you're surprised to hear kind of the level of care that's happening really in their backyard.

The headwinds tend to be infrastructural, right?

So it's all like kind of the more boring stuff, but the stuff that's vital.

It's like money, resources, allocation, you know, the changing environment at the federal level, government regulatory changes.

So these things all have an impact on how you do things because, you know, at the end of the day, these things also can't, they have to be self-sustaining in some ways.

And, you know, there's, you know, the saying, you know, sort of no margin, no mission.

So, you know, fiscal responsibility obviously has to play a part in this because, you know, if you don't, you know, you can't take care of people if you can't keep the lights on.