Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein

So we're not going to like magically make someone not get UTIs by putting them on that right after surgery.

But I do think we should actually educate hip fracture patients.

Hey, you have recurrent UTIs.

I don't want you to break your other hip.

You might benefit from being on vaginal estrogen.

And that's something I'm actually working on with our trauma team right now.

We're looking at...

how frequently our hip fracture population, we're looking at our last 500 hip fractures in women and how many of them were on vaginal estrogen, how many of them have the UTI pre-op and post-op.

And if you look at reviews of hip fracture studies, you'll see anywhere from like 10 to 40% of people having a UTI perioperatively.

So it is a really large problem.

I know.

I can't tell you how many times I see a patient who feels like they haven't been heard when their X-ray is normal or their MRI is normal.

Or even if someone does recognize that they have frozen shoulder, they may hear, well, that just happens to women.

You know, just recognizing, yes, it happens to women, but is there anything else we can do?

I think health literacy is so important.

And I mentioned to you earlier when we were chatting, I actually had like never even been on Instagram before January.

And my 19-year-old daughter, Chloe...

who is Chloe on Canvas on Instagram.

She's a cute little artist, but she helped me make that page.

And I'm using it for health literacy because I think if people have awareness, they can be, you know, more of an advocate for themselves.