Who is the Best Orthopedic Surgeon?

Who is the Best Orthopedic Surgeon?

A Medical Tourism Dilemma: How to Understand Who is Good or Bad While Everyone Claims That They are The Best

Firstly, welcome. I hope that you're going to have fun and gain really valuable knowledge while you're reading this article. This article is written by an international patient coordinator and can be informative for both clinic members and patients. In health-related industries, the most underestimated thing is patient communication. Although, the word, communication doesn't mean "sales" or "advertisement" the majority of private hospitals focus on advertising their products, treatments, surgeries, and doctors. However, what patients need is satisfying information. This lack of communication and information may cause trust issues, misunderstanding, underestimating, or sometimes overestimating. 

When we google a sentence like that "Orthopedic Surgeon in London" or "Orthopedic Clinic Near Me" the first websites or locations that we'll see are probably not the best answers. Because the stock photos, commercial looking images are cliche and every doctor claims that he/she is the best. The definition of "The Best Doctor" here is vague. There is not one simply the best doctor out there somewhere. But there might be the best doctor for you!

For example;

One of our patients says that She chooses us because Dr. Burak Onvural was an orthopedic doctor for famous sports clubs such as Altay FC.

or another patient told us

"I wanted to be told why an hour surgery costs that much by a doctor and this clinic is the only clinic where I got the detailed breakdown!"

The examples above give us two BIG lessons. Every patient has different preferences, but everyone wants to know more about their treatment, doctor. We are talking about health, after all. Gaining trust needs patience and devotion. What a clinic should do to build that trust? To achieve this; understanding the patient is the key. What a patient wants to see is a real experience. That's why Instagram, Facebook, or even Tik-Tok are great ways to connect the potential patients, nowadays. Social media is whole another world in medical businesses. Because not everything in health is a pleasure to one's eyes. The "very scientific" facts can be considered as violent images or can be found offensive to someone else. Although we wish no harm, those restrictions are limiting to show the real quality of a doctor or a surgeon.

I can hear your questions and you are saying "How can we know the talent of a doctor?" Yes, it is the tricky part.

As a patient, you can

Check your clinic's reviews Call your doctor or contact via social media Check your clinic's social media account Request to see the consent forms related to your treatment Ask for a detailed cost breakdown Ask for certifications and accreditations Do your research about post-operational care in that clinic

If you are satisfied 5 out of 7, then the clinic that you are researching knows what they are doing. However, the most successful clinic is the clinic that gives you that 7 important things, before you ask. Because, being fully prepared comes from real experience, success, and failures.

"What about Orthopedics? How can I see other patients' knees?"

Choosing the right orthopedic surgeon is harder than plastic surgery. Yes, asking for someone else's X-rays is quite awkward, that is for sure. However, the background of a surgeon gives clues about the results. The years of experience also give a hint about a good doctor. If a doctor can perform knee replacement surgery for 10 years in the same city, he must be good at it. Because medical occupations do not accept mistakes, and consistent success is reliable than you might think.

The importance of "past-case" quantity has been studied by Barnabas J. Gilbert of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Reuter's article about this research briefly explains the effect of experience with these words;

"Most studies measured the volume of cases a surgeon handled, and some also included years of practice. In 44 studies, researchers found that the number of time procedures took, rates of recurrence of the condition, complication rates, requirements for blood transfusions, mortality and stroke rates all improved as the surgeon’s number of past cases increased."

In conclusion, you need to decide what kind of doctor you need before you search for the best doctor for yourself. If you want to read a detailed article about finding the best doctor you can check our other pages related!