DolfRIchtertzMD

Summary

• I naturally have a high energy level. Having started out penniless and attending college and medical school on scholarships and limited savings I completed medical education at Baylor College of Medicine in 3 years then I completed my orthopaedic residency that emphasized knee & hip total joint and arthroscopic reconstruction and trauma. I supplemented that education with a unique hands-on upper extremity fellowship. I then rejuvenated a disabled orthopaedist's spine and total joint practice in Arizona. I sold this and I set up a 2 location general ortho practice in Santa Cruz Co. CA. I was involved in one of the state's first ASCs as the highest producer. 8 years of that and I moved to the nation's heartland, Nebraska. I 1/2 years into a failed partnership with a sociopath doing spine and total joints and everything else (170 patients operated upon per month combined) I re-established myself as a solo general orthopaedist subspecializing in the upper extremity out of 4 locations across the state. Obamacare resulted in reducing to 3 offices. Home base is Grand Island. Satellites are Lincoln and Omaha. I am among only a very few orthopaedists nationally skilled in nerve conduction studies and utilize that extensively in patient management. I have written over 15 custom patient brochures, set up one of the first and most complete ortho websites in 1999 and after 5 versions revamped it again in 2022 into a subspecialty site. I remain active in clinical research. Meanwhile since 2006 I have been partnered in an Omaha ASC with a larger ortho group. There I was the 3rd largest producer for the first 10 years despite 3 offices 300, 150 and 50 miles away!
  
  I maintain a huge patient outcome database for outcomes research. In fact, probably the only one in Nebraska.