As a coauthor of this column for a number of years now, I have covered the topic of disability insurance in the past. As all orthopedists know, in theory at least, disability can happen to any of us, and for physicians and surgeons who need to use their hands and physically examine patients, a long-term disability can be mean financial devastation if not properly protected against through insurance.
While the theory makes sense, of course, I wanted to go beyond theory in this month’s column , coauthor ed by a colleague of mine — Stephanie Pearson, MD, FACOG, an OB / GYN who suffered a long -