on this edition of the best docs network featuringforest park medical center, dr. daniel aldrich, dr. bob peters, dr. garner newton, dr. jonathanoh. hi again everyone, i'm kandace krueger along with jim knox and we're back again withanother edition of the best docs network featuring forest park medical center. of course, jim,forest park medical center is one of the top medical centers in all of the dallas, fortworth area. exactly right, kandace, from technology,
equipment of course and of course doctors.like our first best doctor who operates right here out of beautiful forest park medicalcenter, it's dr. dan aldrich. the quality of life before a replacement is miserable.the shoulders hurt, you can't sleep, the pain is sharp, dull, burning and it's always there.joint replacement is a very common procedure
now in our country but most common are kneesand hips. a lot of people aren't even aware that shoulder replacement exists but it isa really great option for people with severely arthritic shoulders. we've come a long wayin the last 10 to 20 years with the materials we use. the techniques have been really refinedso that people can get a very good result with a shoulder replacement where they canhave pretty much full use of the arm again without pain. we did the right shoulder replacementin 2010 and since i loved the way my right shoulder was doing and the left shoulder wasstill giving me a lot of fits, i thought okay, maybe, maybe it's bad enough i can get a replacementon the left one. so on january the fifteenth i had the left shoulder replacement. belindawas a typical case where she was someone who
had gradual deterioration in her shoulderand she had both shoulders involved with severe arthritis. and she had tried the usual treatments,advil's and aleve's and cortisone injection and physical therapy until the point whereshe just really was having severe pain all the time and that was the point where we hadto talk about replacement. and we did full replacement on both shoulders and she'd doneextremely well and has had a great result and is pain free and has true unrestricteduse of both shoulders at this point. the new shoulder replacement belinda is a very happyperson. dr. aldrich is a very good doctor. he's knowledgeable in all he does. the qualityof my life is improved by what he's done. radiology departments are very commonly inhospitals. the difference here is that this
is primarily a surgical hospital and our primarypurpose is to support our o.r. and we have 14 o.r. suites upstairs. we have both preand post operative imaging. here at forest park i work more closely with the staff members,kind of the segue between the director and the technologist. i'm here with them dailysupervising what rooms they're in, what exams need to be done, what tech goes to what assignment.we're a full service outpatient facility. we have an mri here that's called a shortbore. what that means is it's not as coffin like for patients, it's more open. we alsohave a ct scanner here, it's a 64 slice that is capable of doing cardiac as well as anyother ct imaging that you might need and it's also an interventional radiology ct scannermeaning we can do procedures that normally
would have had to been done in another roomand then brought to ct for scanning. we can do both on the scanner at the same time. wehave an onsite radiologist from rca that read all our imaging. we have an onsite ultrasoundunit fully capable of doing general ultrasound and vascular and i also have a staff memberthat can do both. here at forest park medical center we work closely with some of the bestsurgeons in the area, they're definitely top notch. we do what's best for them and we makesure that we have all of the equipment necessary, all of the reps that they need to make surethat they get the job done well. our surgery suite encompasses four c-arms that can beused in a variety of times during the day and our primary o.r. tech who happens to beour lead tech here at this facility is stefanie
woodlee and she has not only taken the bullby the horns here at this facility but she's also trained each of the other staff membersthat work in o.r. and has done a phenomenal job in that capacity. if we're doing spinalfusions, that screw placement is very important and we need to make sure that those screwsgo in exactly where they need to be and imaging has everything to do with that. if our imageis wrong then those screws could be placed incorrectly so we work very closely with thesurgeons to make sure that we have the right image that they need to make sure that theycan place the screws correctly in the spine where they need to be. we're actually imagingduring the surgery and assisting the surgeon to make sure that he's guiding his tools intothe right proper anatomy to make sure that
he's doing it where he needs to be. i reallyfirmly believe that we have state of the art equipment here and i've got a top notch staffthat can really meet any of the referring physicians in the communities needs. bestdocs network featuring forest park medical center, welcome to the twenty first centuryof cutting edge medicine, forest park medical center. while i was in texarkana i had numeroustests because they had thought that it might be ovarian cancer and when i went in dr. ohlooked at all my records from years past and he said from everything that he was seeingin my counts from my blood counts, it really didn't look like i had cancer but he assuredme that if it was cancer they would get it all in that one operation. if it wasn't hetold me he said we will go in and do a total
hysterectomy, you will be going home the nextday. when we say robotic surgery, the robot is just a very fancy, very expensive laparoscopictool so it's about a two million dollar machine that we use, the surgeons use to assist uswith laparoscopic surgery so truly it's laparoscopic surgery but it's using a robotic system sothe surgeon is still in complete control of the system. so when i went in for surgery,it was absolutely very easy in that they made it all so easy for me, they took care of menot feeling so anxiety ridden. i've personally been doing robotic surgery since 2008 andfor me it's been a game changer for my patients. and when i woke up the first thing they saidto me was mrs. wright you do not have cancer. and at that point i was so ecstatic. in thepast for a lot of patients with uterine and
cervical cancer, those patients required verylarge incisions, many weeks to months of recovery time. nowadays with robotic surgery, theyare able to get out of the hospital usually in less than 24 hours. by noon the next dayi was packing my things, my belongings and headed back home to texarkana. you would havenever known that i had a major surgery. i was able to get up, sit down, get in and outof a car. i owe a lot of that to dr. oh, his knowledge, his expertise. i just can't sayhow wonderful it was to experience such a painless operation that i had witnessed 30years earlier with my mom and sister that was much different. did you know that forestpark medical center was voted as one of the top 100 places to work in the dallas, fortworth area? forest park medical center received
this honor for the second year in a row. pattyhas a question for dr. richard ha. can i take fat from one area of my body and put it inmy breasts? the answer is that the jury is still out. there's a lot of science that surroundsthis and what we do know is that it may not be completely safe. there is some data thatsuggests that injecting fat into the breast may increase the risk of cancer development.so for right now until we have more information, it is not recommended that we harvest fatfrom one area of the body to inject for the purposes of breast augmentation. so consultyour plastic surgeon to have that discussion. it is probably still safer to undergo breastaugmentation with conventional breast implants. now to an inspirational story that happenedright here out of forest park medical center.
we want to introduce you to a 2 year old girlnamed mia who was born deaf. well we are from bolivia. i came two and a half years ago.my father and my mother they started to see something strange with my baby girl. i thinkthe very first time that i noticed and i was the one that really noticed there may be anissue was when i first held her in bolivia. she was just a few weeks old. i just notedthat she didn't appear to be responding to noise and sounds around. i was thinking thatshe was okay, that nothing was wrong, maybe she's distracted, i don't know. when theytold us that she wasn't listening, it was hard because i want she can listen to me orshe can listen herself so sometimes it's frustrating to talk to the baby or you want to teach hersomething and you can't because she cannot
listen. well we first contacted dr. petersin dallas hearing institute then we knew that he was the president of the foundation, ofdallas hearing foundation and we talked to him and they started looking for a devicefor mia and i'm glad that they found the right one and hopefully and with god's help it'sgoing to work good, it's going to work good. med el along with the dallas hearing foundationwe share a commitment to the hearing loss community and when the dallas hearing foundationapproached med el we thought this was an ideal situation to kind of help out a family andso we put them into our grant process. and as the patient goes through the grant process,you know mia and her family were approved. mia was born with profound hearing loss andthat means that hearing aids were not able
to give her enough hearing. so, the only wayshe would gain adequate hearing in order to develop speech and language, oral language,would be to have a cochlear implant. so today we placed a surgical implant that is meantto stimulate the hearing nerves that are there but just not working. and it will stimulatethose nerves and produce for her a sense of hearing. we test the implant and determineduring surgery that she is responding to the implant. we actually do not turn it on forthree weeks. we want to let her incision heal so we won't turn it on for three weeks. soshe's just going to have like any typical ear surgery, have some recovery time and somediscomfort. but three weeks from now is when we'll bring them back to our office and actuallyactivate the implant. well, for her it's going
to be a big difference from not hearing tohearing is a big change. she was living happy without hearing and now hearing she's goingto be happier, that's why we're here. that's why we're in america, in dallas in this bighospital, good hospital, with the best devices that she can get. thank you dallas hearingcenter, thank you forest park medical center, thank you dr. peters, thank you linda, debbie,all of them. now stay tuned. a little bit later on in the show, the inspirational storycontinues as mia hears for the first time. endometriosis is glandular cells similar tothe lining of the uterus that gets where it doesn't belong. it can get on the bowel, thebladder, the uterus, the tubes, the ovaries, in their liver, in their lungs. this is adisease that can get almost anywhere and it
is not a malignancy, it's not cancer but thesymptoms that it produces are so life interfering that it feels like a life threatening problem,they can't function. and it grows with hormones and all of this is related to their immunesystem. women are more likely to have lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, hypothyroidism. theyhave problems with their bladder where they pee a lot during the day and there's bloodin the urine so because of the immune system this disease continues to grow. they can'teradicate it, they can't get rid of it and it does grow with their own hormones or evenartificial hormones such as birth control pills. how do i know when to go to the doctor?if your symptoms are interfering with your normal functions, that's the time to go seea doctor. if you wake up in the morning with
your cycle and it hurts a little bit and youdon't even have to take any medication maybe you don't need to see a doctor. if you haveto take any pain medication, if you have to lay on a heating pad, if you can't go andhave fun with your friends or your family and do your normal activities that's the timeto seek help from somebody who deals with endometriosis on a daily basis. the way tocure and get rid of as much endometriosis as you can is actually to cut it out. we outlineit and then lift the tissue up and then cut underneath so that we have normal tissue thatwe take out along with the endometriosis. so by doing this we eradicate as much endometriosisas we possibly can. anyplace where this disease is at we have to excise it / cut it out sothat we give that patient the best opportunity
to be as symptom or disease free as we can.the goal of this is to treat this disease early. if we can treat this disease earlywe have a much better success rate in eradicating this disease so that a woman can go on andhave a very functional life and early treatment is key to this. for more information aboutbeautiful forest park medical center as well as the outstanding doctors that operate righthere out of forest park medical center, you can head to the website, bestdocsnetwork.comand click on the forest park medical center tab. and now let's check in with our nextoutstanding doctor that operates right here at forest park medical center, it's orthopedicsurgeon, dr. charles toulson. i had a probably three year extended period of deterioratingknees. they just got to where i had been able
to work out and run, and then the pain gotto be such that no, you couldn't run anymore and i could jog, and then it got to wherei couldn't jog. at one point i finally tweaked one of the knees, tore some more cartilageand then i was looking like the mummy for about 7 months. it was horrible. there arethree compartments in the knee. there's the inner knee, there's the outer knee and there'sthe compartment behind the kneecap. when patients have arthritis in one or two areas of theknee, they're candidates for robotic partial knee replacement. osteoarthritis of the kneeis very common. often patients have activity related pain but later it can progress tohaving pain at rest or pain that even wakes them up from their sleep. i went to see dr.toulson, a very personable guy. he x-rayed
both knees and looked at it and said i gotbad news and worse news. the bad news is it's really true that you did tear some more cartilagein the knee. the worse news is even if i repair that, both knees have substantial osteoarthritisand doing the arthroscopy now is really not going to give you the relief that you're seeking.steve was a unique case. he was a 64 year old gentleman with osteoarthritis of bothknees. his arthritis was confined to both the inner aspect of both knees so he was agreat candidate for getting bilateral knee replacement using the robotic technology.steve is incredible. he is back to his active lifestyle. he has no pain, he has no limpand his incisions are very small, you can hardly see them. i'd say it's been a grandexperience. i will never again take for granted
walking without a limp. you just don't realizeall the things that you give up when you're walking around in pain and dragging a leg.it's not any fun and all that's gone. now i can get in and out of cars, i can go upand down stairs, i can do pretty much anything i want to do now. we're ground breaking forforest park medical center here in san antonio. it's a new 54 bed facility here in san antonio.i think the outstanding piece of this is just the quality of care that we can bring to sanantonio. for the insured patient here it's just going to be outstanding. the qualityof care that forest park offers as you know this is the fifth facility that forest parkwill offer. we have a facility in dallas and frisco. we're about to open in southlake.you know i personally think that it's the
quality of care that sets forest park apartfrom our competitors here in san antonio. the greatest thing about forest park reallyto be honest with you all is the people in this room and the people that we touch havean opportunity to secure their own future and when you travel around the rest of theworld and you see how healthcare exists you kind of have a future, a vision of what'sgoing to happen to us in the united states. there's going to be a healthcare system forthe vast majority of people and those who want something different need to have someplaceelse to go and we need to have physicians to treat those people who want to have someplaceelse to go and those physicians are in this room. and we have an opportunity to affectvery positively on the healthcare for the
future and the way we take care of patients.in addition we also have the opportunity to secure the future of ourselves, our practicesand also that of our families. we all believe in excellence, we all believe in deliveringthe best healthcare at the best possible price in the best environment to our patients andwe want to make sure that our families have a place, our friends have a place and ourpatients have a place that we think is as good as the place that we want to live in.thank you very much for being here and we look forward to this hospital. and now we'llcontinue the very touching story of mia as dr. bob peters activates her cochlear implantfor the very first time. not long ago at forest park medical center, mia had surgery to helpher hear. now let's watch mia hear for the
very first time. well today mia is going toget her cochlear implant activation and she will start hearing, she will start hearingtoday and we're very happy about it. we were shaking and too excited for everything today.i know it wasn't like a huge thing but for her it was something different. now the deviceis attached and within a few moments you see responses from mia that you've never seen.you know, you can tell something new is happening. she would have never been able to hear andnow she can and will. it's overwhelming, it's overwhelming. she was happy, jumping and runningand it looks like she doesn't have anything there. we were so excited and so worried abouther for not dropping the device but she will do it we know so we just want the best forher. it has been a journey and a long and
a short one at the same time. waiting, praying,wishing and some days losing hope. it's an amazing journey and now it's just begun. it'sgoing to take some time for her to start to process. it's all about the brain processinginformation. it's going to take her time to realize, oh that was the door knock, thatwas the door bell, that's mommy's phone, that's mommy's voice, that's daddy's voice. it'sgoing to all take time. just like a normal hearing infant. a normal hearing infant isborn hearing perfectly but they don't understand. maybe 6 months, maybe 8 months they startto respond to their name. they might start to respond to the dog's name. so she has togo through the same developmental stages of hearing and learning to talk that a normalchild goes through and that takes months and
years. it's going to be a real challenge forus but we are going to practice and we are going to help her and teach her. there isno way to say thank you enough, there's no way to repay it other than we will be yourambassador, i can tell you that and we'll try to make the best out of it for mia andwatch her develop and we're just so thankful. everyone is changing her life. it's a newbeginning for her, it's like a newborn but now she can really start to listen and changingthat part in her life. i had torn my acl about in 2008 i believe playing soccer and it wassomething that i just kind of tried to rehab without having the surgery. i just was concernedabout finding the right doctor to have it done. honestly i didn't have the time at thetime to go through the rehab process. and
what happened was, i was in the back yardhanging a swing up for my daughter and jumped off the ladder because it started to move,and when i jumped i hurt it again. well, most any sporting event that requires cutting putsyou at risk of an acl tear, soccer, downhill skiing, football, basketball. it's a ligamentthat we can pretty much put back where it's supposed to be to try to allow you to returnto that previous state of, or that previous level of activity. i went to see dr. newtonand first visit he said absolutely that my acl was torn and there was no reason at myage that i should leave it that way, that it wasn't a very difficult surgery. it's anoutpatient procedure this day and age and the patient can walk even out of the hospitalif they feel like it. now sometimes i will
use crutches if they need them, but most ofthe time people don't need crutches even the day of surgery. i will use a cpm machine whichis a motion machine to help them get their motion back and an ice machine to help themwith their pain. but the first six weeks usually is just letting them get their motion back.i do use a brace postoperatively and then after that, after they've had some healing,then i start working more on strength and then endurance training and then hopefullyactivity related exercises to get them back to sport. the surgery went excellent, betterthan i could have imagined. i wish it was something that i had done a lot earlier becausei played a lot of sports for many years wearing a knee brace and i didn't really need to dothat. i'm continuing to do a little bit of
the physical therapy. since we're towardsthe end of this now i can't wait to be able to get back out and play sports and just throwthe ball with my kids in the backyard and not be concerned about my knee hurting, slippingagain. today's ask the doctor comes from eric. eric has a question for dr. james davidson.the question, how soon after bariatric surgery can i expect to see my diabetes go away? peopleask how fast is their diabetes going to be improved with either a bypass or a sleeve.the answer is it's going to be improved faster with a bypass and they may if they don't havereal severe diabetes they may leave the hospital throwing away their metformin and their diabeticpills. with a sleeve it may take longer. it may take a few months to both have a littleweight loss and have accumulative effects
of the metabolic changes from the sleeve toresolve their diabetes. so my recommendation is if somebody wants to resolve their diabetesas fast as possible you're probably better off to have a bypass. best docs network featuringforest park medical center, welcome to the twenty first century of cutting edge medicine,forest park medical center. well that'll do it, that'll wrap up another edition of thebest docs network featuring forest park medical center. of course forest park medical centersare one of the top medical centers in all of the dallas, fort worth area. and if youwant more information on forest park medical center, the technology and the outstandingdoctors that operate right here out of forest
Diabetes And Glandular Clinic San Antonio,park medical center you can find it on thewebsite, bestdocsnetwork.com, click on the
forest park medical center tab. and as always,if you have a question or comment for us we'd sure love to hear from you, send us an emailat info@bestdocsnetwork.com. so long everyone, we will see you next week.
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