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

whether that's an injection and ablation, et cetera, and then go check in and see how they're doing, it's just better involvement in your patient's care and can also contribute to better patient outcomes.

So that makes a lot of sense.

Obviously, these things can take some time, but I'm hopeful that by the end of this year, that that's another thing that will be on our horizon.

And both from a neurosurgery and an orthopedic standpoint here at GW, we both agree that

that this is the future.

And we look forward to offering this to our patients.

Yeah, I would say that probably the most important thing is creating the comprehensive spine center.

We're also working on collaboration by educating other providers in our referral base.

So that's not just things that are very spine adjacent, like pain management and spine surgeons in general, but this also includes our primary care physicians.

This includes other disciplines like endocrinology and rheumatology, people that we work with

very closely as well or have common patients with.

And right now, in most cases for spine surgery, there's a process by which patients are seen.

In many cases, you require six weeks of physical therapy in order to get an MRI.

In other cases, we're looking to get patients treated for things like osteoporosis.

We're looking to get before spinal fusions, for example, and just looking to have patients worked up by other means for other medical conditions to get optimized for surgery.

And so really facilitating that communication, educating other providers about how this process works and how we can better take care of our patients.

I would say is another thing that's on my list of goals for the upcoming year, but is an exciting thing that's happening at GW so that we can all work on collaborating and taking better care of patients.

I think one of the most important things is mentorship.

And that's something that you and I may even have spoken about previously.

It's such an important thing as a resident, not that that was terribly long ago for me, but as a resident, when you think back to the people who influenced your choice in the field you go into and into your subspecialty, and you think about it like not every orthopedic resident that comes to work with me is going to be a spine surgeon, but it's

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