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In his capacity as vice chair of quality of Duke’s Department of Neurosurgery, neurosurgeon Oren Gottfried, MD, has helped develop numerous quality initiatives focusing on improving patient satisfaction and surgical outcomes and reducing patient morbidity and mortality.

“Dr. Oren Gottfried is Clinical Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Duke University School of Medicine.”

“For a patient with lumbar back pain, radiating leg pain or weakness, or other problems, an effective treatment may be elusive at first.”

The knowledge of my limited power became clear to me early in my career, and I recognize it each time I treat a person who has sustained an acute trauma that causes a spinal fracture and sadly, a spinal- cord injury.

In April 2014, a 63-year-old man presented to the Duke neurosurgery clinic with lower back pain that had begun about 6 weeks earlier.