Why Your MRI Doesn't Mean You Need Surgery | Dr Howard Luks

Sep 28, 2026 · 1h 27m

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0:04You're an orthopedic surgeon.

0:06What types of surgery do you normally focus on?

0:09So that's changed over my career.

0:10When I came out, I was sports medicine trained in terms of my fellowship, the training I did after residency.

0:18But my first job was as chief of sports medicine at an academic center, and we happened to be a level one trauma center.

0:26So we all took level one trauma call.

0:29So it was trauma-heavy.

0:30I didn't do small little rotator cuff tears.

0:34I did shoulder reconstructions of people who were hit by cars and threw and flew 30 feet.

0:40And so over the years, as I've stopped doing trauma, now I just focus on mostly knees and shoulders.

0:47From what I kind of gather from your writing online, you spend quite a lot of time today telling people that they might not actually need surgery.

0:57Is that an accurate reflection of the conversations that you're also having in clinic?

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