“This case, a club foot, has a record of 30-50 year successful follow up. Most children do very well.”
As surgeons, Dr. Belthur and his Fellow, Dr. Waseemuddin (who plans to go to Harvard’s Mass General Hospital after his stint at Phoenix Children’s) were a real joy to watch. Dr. Belthur conducts his operating room like Leonard Bernstein conducted the New York Philharmonic. At one point in the short surgery, the two doctors were so focused on Daniel that their foreheads were almost touching.
Wrapping up was, literally, wrapping Daniel’s legs in casts. Surgery took about 10 minutes, casting took about 25 minutes. Then it was straight to the Pediatric Acute Care Unit (PACU) and the care of Recovery Nurse Sheila Birlin. Mom and dad came in just minutes later and while they were holding a hungry Daniel, back in the OR, Dr. Belthur was writing up his case notes from the case.
Daniel is on his way to making sure his young parents hustle to keep up. Go Daniel Go!
Photographs Source: Margaret Young and RRY Publications, LLC
End of Part I
Part II—“Next week, teens, young adults and a five-hour surgery fill the rest of our day in the many lives of Phoenix Children’s Hospital.”
