Chris Hamilton, MD

Parent, Husband, Orthopod, Stanford Fan, Curious, CSUB orthopedist

[Chris Hamilton, MD @hamiltoncdmd]

@northwoods1980 Agree. I rarely get a complaint for appropriate treatment on an overread, but if it is not on the Radiology report, I cannot do the right surgery for the patient. I think that’s why we all bring unrecognizable, or things that are not commented on to the radiologist attention

[Chris Hamilton, MD @hamiltoncdmd]

@sortabonefixer Revision reverse. No fun. Conversion to hemi?

[Chris Hamilton, MD @hamiltoncdmd]

@hjluks @DrNikhilVerma Again nuances are important. If I’m 50 and active, fix my Supra, because I don’t do as good a job at 62 when you blow out the infra with atrophy of the supraspinatus.

[Chris Hamilton, MD @hamiltoncdmd]

@solimanibra92 @Davembmd @MrDanPerry @traumaticum @bonesmith_ @DrPhilSurface @Gnomelover1970 @neilorpen @ojedathies Treat as an adult. IM nail

[Chris Hamilton, MD @hamiltoncdmd]

@kcrehabguy Can be hard to get them to buy in. The mri says they have a “tear” ……..

[Kevin W. Farmer, MD @kevinfarmermd]

I’m late to the party, but as athletic trainining month comes to a close, I want to express my gratitude. There is no single profession more valuable to the field of sports medicine than athletic training. They make our jobs, as physicians, easier. They are the first person the athlete wants to see after an injury. More than the doctor, more than the coach, and, in most cases, more than their parents. They are the unsung heroes of sports medicine. For every championship, there is likely an athletic trainer making sure the star athlete is on the field, and, in some cases saving someone’s career, or life. I can not fully express my respect and gratitude for all in the profession. I can not list everyone I’ve worked with during the course of my career, but please know how much I appreciate and respect all you do 🙏

[Chris Hamilton, MD @hamiltoncdmd]

@DrJesseMorse I disagree. She pushed an aggressive line, caught her shoulder on the gate. This had nothing to do with her left knee. You did not need your ACL to ski, only to fall.

[Kenny Kim @KendoVT]

Winter Olympians:

-I’ve ruptured my ACL but I’m still going to ski 80mph down a hill of ice

-I’ve broken my arm but I’m still going to jump 30 ft into the air on my snowboard while twisting and flipping at the same time

NBA Players:

-I played yesterday. Gonna take today off

[Chris Hamilton, MD @hamiltoncdmd]

@DrJesseMorse @BNightengale @USATODAY relative risk of death at a surgery center for a young, healthy person is approximately 1/50,000. As a surgeon sometimes you can’t explain. It is a little bit like driving a car. Somebody might drop something off of the overpass. No surgery should be considered routine.

[Chris Hamilton, MD @hamiltoncdmd]

@pratikorho If I do acutely then, yes, I use a tight rope without augmenting.
But ironically, in my professional hockey players, we rarely fix any of these, and they return to play more quickly than with Surgery

[Southern California Orthopedic Institute @SCOIOrthoNews]

SCOI is consistently the preferred expert in the Southern California area for diagnosing and treating bone, joint, and muscle conditions and musculoskeletal and spinal disorders.

[Dan Choi, MD, FAAOS @drdanchoi]

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand - Dr. Hendricks in Galt’s Gulch (Part III, Chapter I).

“I quit when medicine was placed under State control some years ago,” said Dr. Hendricks. “Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I could not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything — except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the ‘welfare’ of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, but ‘to serve.’ That a man’s willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards — never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness at which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind — yet what is it they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in their operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man whose life they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it — and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn’t.”

h/t @ProfUnfiltered

[Chris Hamilton, MD @hamiltoncdmd]

@ClayTravis @on3 Improved

[Chris Hamilton, MD @hamiltoncdmd]

@bone00afide Thank goodness it’s not broken!

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

The tradition of the Notre Dame football team attending Mass before games, which had been discontinued, was reinstated by Marcus Freeman when he assumed the position of head coach a couple of years ago. Freeman, a convert to Catholicism, reintroduced this practice shortly after taking over the role.

[Chris Hamilton, MD @hamiltoncdmd]

@SnowBrains Missing mammoth and June

[Stanford Cardinal 🌲🤓 @GoStanford]

Welcome to The Farm 🌲

We’re excited to announce Stanford’s next Jaquish & Kenninger Director and Chair of Athletics, John Donahoe!

🗞️ » https://t.co/YyIVL0qifh

[Chris Hamilton, MD @hamiltoncdmd]

@marykmulcaheymd @OfficialJAAOS @AAOS1 @aoa1887 @MSOSOrtho But does it make a better doctor/surgeon or only a more appealing application??

[Chris Hamilton, MD @hamiltoncdmd]

@solimanibra92 @eric_novack @InvictaOrtho @bonesmith_ @centerofhip @anklefootmd @txsportsdoc @rkh_md @traumaticum @DrFraneNicholas Immediate WB. didn’t need distal locking. Crutches for comfort.

[KHSD @KHSD_Official]

Congratulations to Morgan George, the 2025 Bakersfield Mayor’s Trophy recipient! 🎉🏆

Morgan is a standout student-athlete at Centennial High School! 👏

The Mayor’s Trophy celebrates academic excellence, leadership, public service, and athletic achievement.