Dr. Robert Gotlin on ESPN

[Disciple]

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Anybody happen to catch Mike & Mike in the morning on ESPN radio yesterday morning?

They interviewed Dr. Gotlin about Tom Brady's infected knee and 3 surgeries this past week.

Way to represent for PM&R sports med👍

 

[dc2md]

anyone have a video of this? youtube?

 

[Disciple]

Click on the links to the Podcasts on this page:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3662578

 

[dc2md]

:-( I was hoping to hear him mention physiatry. For all the public knows, he's another orthopedic surgeon.

Here's his bio page on ESPN radio: http://stations.espn.go.com/stations/1050espnradio/story?id=3452896

Way to go Dr. Rob!!!

 

[MSKalltheway]

:-( I was hoping to hear him mention physiatry. For all the public knows, he's another orthopedic surgeon.

Sadly, you make a salient point...I thought he was an orthopod too 🙁

Glad to know it's a possibility though, I'd love for some ESPN stuff to be in my job description 🙂

 

[Llenroc]

The public perception is that a surgeon is a type of superior, higher ranking doctor.

They hire that Sanjay Gupta guy, a neurosurgeon, to do medical opinion pieces on CNN. A big part of his marketing is that he's a "brain surgeon". IMO, neurosurgeons know the absolute least about general medical issues that are of concern to the public of any type of physician, but the public probably thinks they know the most.

 

[dc2md]

Our local television news expert is a pediatrician. But I think the bottom line is that any physician can be the "expert" if they read enough and consult other physicians in areas where they're lacking knowledge. As long as they're bring good health info to the public, I don't care what their residency training was in.

 

[Disciple]

Sadly, you make a salient point...I thought he was an orthopod too 🙁

Glad to know it's a possibility though, I'd love for some ESPN stuff to be in my job description 🙂

There's the marketing issue again. They mentioned the fellowship he runs, but I would have thrown in something about PM&R somewhere in my bio.

 

[dc2md]

He does have this in his ESPN bio:

"He is board certified by both the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the American Osteopathic Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. As the program chairman for the New York State Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, he organized an ongoing lecture series for specialists in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation."

But yeah, it would great if he verbally mentioned physiatry more (not that I've heard his segments much). Anyone wanna contact him and ask him to throw in a little PMR talk...besides a lowly resident like me.

 

[Disciple]

It would have been good if Mike would've said what specialty he is during the intro.

As mentioned above, the intro sounds like he's the director of an Ortho fellowship.

 

[Dijiken]

did a month with him in his office as a med student. He doesn't advertise physiatry much...lots of his stuff just says sports or orthopedics on it. I like his ESPN business cards though. But he's on the radio every week with his own show sunday mornings...why so excited about being on Mike and Mike?

He also treats a lot of coccydynia.

 

[drvlad2004]

did a month with him in his office as a med student. He doesn't advertise physiatry much...lots of his stuff just says sports or orthopedics on it. I like his ESPN business cards though. But he's on the radio every week with his own show sunday mornings...why so excited about being on Mike and Mike?

He also treats a lot of coccydynia.

Coccydynia! I did a rotation there as well because I was interested in the fellowship program. You didn't explain more about the coccyx manipulation he does for good reason 🙂. In all seriousness, I did lean the ischioanal fossa technique in med school. His approach is probably different. Sorry to anyone for the previous comment.

As alluded to, Dr. Gotlin refers to himself more as a non-surgical orthopod. I guess that is somewhat compatible with outpatient non-interventional msk physiatry.

 

[Disciple]

But he's on the radio every week with his own show sunday mornings...why so excited about being on Mike and Mike?

Because it's mainstream and Physiatry is relatively obscure.

The specialty needs all the positive publicity it can get.

 

[Dijiken]

Coccydynia! I did a rotation there as well because I was interested in the fellowship program. You didn't explain more about the coccyx manipulation he does for good reason 🙂. It is interesting that his patient population for those people are women in the 20s-30s. Hmm!

As alluded to, Dr. Gotlin refers to himself more as a non-surgical orthopod. He does plain msk rehab. I was not really impressed by him. The stuff that he does we can all do right after residency. His fellowship was more interesting when he was part of Dr. Scott's Beth Isreal group that treated the NY Knicks. I was more impressed by the other attendings, Dr. Lisa Bartoli and Stuart Kahn.

you're right...didn't want to go into more detail about that on purpose. hehe...but those are the ppl that have it most too it would seem....