Power to the Bone
An All-In Model to a Rewarding Orthopaedic Practice
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As we refine what we do with residency and fellowship training, our greatest challenge is the awareness of who we are, not as a generation of intellectual and critical thinkers but as representatives of human decency. Our assignments are oriented towards injury and pathology. Yet, each is served through our embedded, spiritual compass. Our compass is a creative presence that determines the depth of our capacity for empathy and wholeness. When people cannot clearly connect with medical information, their only recourse is to connect with us! Those incomparable and irreplaceable soft skills are the essence that opens patients' hearts to us. Grow in it. Be sure your version of patient care always includes the patient.
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About the Book
It takes truth to realize we never arrive. It takes courage to allow life to be the classroom, the perfecting journey, and the joy it is designed to be. Medicine in general, but surgery in particular, always comprises the intersection of the heart and the hands as who we are not only fills what we do, but also how we do. Power to the Bone may sound like a textbook, but it reads like a life book and a hope manual as it outlines that whether an Orthopaedic surgeon or a powerful English instructor, we are never higher or more impactful than the moral principles that lead us. Wisdom is always the principal thing and the leader in the room. The book specifically dissents the qualitative distance often presupposed in the medical profession. Declarations like: “Treat patients who trust you; avoid those who worship you” champion the purpose of this book to help make a doctor’s impact “comprehensible and tangible but also human and relational.” Dr. Vestinia Bridges makes Power to the Bone a generational gift as it embraces key foundational themes that define life’s trajectory and power: humility, virtue, hope, empathy, compassion, kindness, mercy, belief, creativity, faith, and love. The engaging strength that Dr. Bridges accomplishes in Power to the Bone is its distinction for life application that extends to every profession, any age, all levels of expertise, and all culture. The focus distinct from the technical elements of Orthopaedic Surgery makes one wonder if Part Two is coming
About the Author
Vestinia Madonna Bridges is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist currently with the MedStar Orthopaedic Institute, formerly Greater Metropolitan Orthopaedics. She is the only African American woman ever to work for the institute. She was the valedictorian of her high school class. Her alma mater is Duke University, where she played varsity field hockey for four years. She graduated from Howard University College of Medicine, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. As an intern with Howard University Hospital, she was Intern of the Year for the hospital and the Department of General Surgery. After her orthopaedic residency with Howard University Hospital, she did her sports medicine fellowship with Temple University Hospital. She has been in private practice for nearly three decades, serving professional athletes, high school hopefuls, college players, and weekend warriors with grace and good. While she emphasizes her gift as a diagnostician, her greatest skill to patients is her love for people to not simply speak to but also into patients to make them feel valued and respected.