Rachel Bratescu

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Becker’s Healthcare -- Spine and Orthopedic Podcast · Rachel Bratescu, MD, Orthopaedic Surgeon and member of the GW Spine and Pain Center at George Washington University Hospital · 10 Jan 2026 podcast

I'm hopeful in the next few months that that will be the case and that I can start employing this technique with my patients.

Yeah, I think when we consider what goes into patients having spine surgery, there's a lot of things.

There's not only from a hospital standpoint, considering things like length of stay, length of surgery, anesthesia, efficiency of surgery, OR time, staffing and things of that nature.

Really doing these surgeries in less invasive manners allows us to be more efficient, to help more patients, and also consider doing things on more of an outpatient basis or ambulatory surgery.

So it's really advantageous from a hospital standpoint and also from a patient standpoint.

And I think that's one of the greatest advantages of doing surgery this way.

Sure.

So I think the next one that I'm really excited about, which is also founded in

in my training as a spine surgeon, having done both orthopedic and neurosurgical spine fellowships, is creating a comprehensive spine center at GW.

And what that means is merging both the orthopedic and neurosurgery spine departments.

I am fortunate that I have a great relationship with the neurosurgeons here, and this is really the future of spine surgery, especially at many large academic centers in the United States and around the world.

employ this model.

And what that really means is that you have orthopedic and neurosurgeons who are spine surgeons collaborating and working together instead of being two separate departments.

You're working under the same department, the Department of Spine Surgery, and a comprehensive spine center isn't just about the surgeons.

It's also about everything else that

we can offer patients, whether that is pain management, injections, physical therapy.

These are other departments and other providers that I work very closely with who take care of my patients.

And there's often multiple steps that happen before a patient even goes to surgery, in addition to patients for whom surgery is not in their best interest.

So it really makes sense to have all of these offerings under the same roof and in the same place.

at the same time this promotes better patient care better access streamlining of appointments of staffing and having everything in one place both figuratively but also in many cases under the same roof like sharing clinic space when you can walk down the hallway and speak to one of your colleagues about a mutual patient or come up with a plan or even see that same patient both in the same day or have their intervention done

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