Dr. Nolan Wessell

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Becker’s Healthcare -- Spine and Orthopedic Podcast · Dr. Nolan Wessell, Assistant Professor and Well-being Co-Director, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Division of Spine Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine · 8 Dec 2025 podcast

Well, you can get some of your personal or family time back, which is fantastic.

Or, yeah, or, you know, based on our clinic schedules,

that might open up availability for two to four patients a week.

And that adds up quickly, 200 to 300 patients a year that otherwise might have to wait months to get in to see us now can get in to get their care sooner.

And that's all on the backs of technological advancement and artificial intelligence.

So when I think about growth,

I think more about efficiency.

How can I personally better use my time?

And then how is an entire healthcare system?

Can we better optimize the time we spend with patients and taking care of them?

Absolutely.

I mean, instead of staring down at a piece of scratch paper or typing notes into a computer, I'm really focused on what the patient is saying and

and can develop that more personalized interaction as opposed to staring at a computer screen or staring at a piece of paper.

You know...

Conversations about declining reimbursements are not isolated to spine surgery.

It's across the board.

A close colleague and friend of mine wrote a paper in the Journal of Arthroplasty last year that said orthopedic surgeons have taken a 31% hit on inflation-adjusted income over the last quarter century.

And nobody really wants to hear an orthopedic surgeon complain, and I'm not complaining on a personal level, but what this has led to in other specialties are care deserts.

So here in Colorado, a healthcare system that covers the Gunnison Valley, if anybody's ever been to Gunnison, Colorado or Crested Butte, we're talking about some pristine areas of the state and pristine areas of the country.

But those healthcare systems, because of declining reimbursements, have had to shut down their obstetrics and gynecology programs.

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