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George Gantsoudes

@pedsortho.bsky.social

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Pediatric orthopaedic surgeon nicknamed *The Boss of Bones* by a cool 7 y.o. patient. Come for occasional ortho opinions. Stay for far-left political opinions. Quit my job and will be launching new practice in 2026. #ortho

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 21h

Excited to announce my new pediatric orthopaedic practice opening January 2026 in Fairfax, VA:

NOVA Pediatric Orthopaedics

And…we’re hiring! Detailed 2026 Q1 job postings are now up at www.novapedsortho.com/jobs

Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested.

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NOVA
PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDICS
Now interviewing for Q1 2026 job openings:
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon (sports focus)
Pediatric Sports Medicine Physician (fellowship-trained)
Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner
Director of Physical Therapy
Cast Technician
Radiology Technician
Interested? Email CV and cover letter to jobs@novapedsortho.com

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1h

Donald Trump can’t win the Nobel Peace Prize now because he screwed up the order of things. He was supposed to wait until *after* he won it to start extrajudicially killing dudes with drones/missiles.

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 9h

Related: My first cell phone (‘00) got a number where the last four matched my childhood phone last four. All of my friends only had to learn the three digit prefix.

Moved to NY for residency in 04, and was required to get a NY number b/c dialing out long-distance from the hospital cost money.

💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 18h

[dies of old]

r/CasualConversation • 2 days ago
TotalThing7
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 9h

It’s amazing how hard they are willing to play when they know scoring is a possibility. We could have won by twenty tonight if not for penalties (real and imaginary) and that 4th and 1 play call. All fixable things! On to Saints week! 🐻 ⬇️

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 9h

This absolutely falls under “Let people enjoy things.”

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 9h

Yiddish Policeman’s Bureau
Catch-22
1984
The Lord of the Flies
The Color Purple

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 9h

Samesies

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Nashon Wright getting cut tomorrow
Job saved
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No hands to the face, huh
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Prediction??? 7m
I'm saying snap hook 6m

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 9h

It really felt like it was out of our control tonight. Caleb looked very good. Gotta have DJ and Olamide being better on the second to last drive.

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 12h

Two super soft drive killing/extending penalties called against the good guys so far

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 12h

Theo Benedet had to go to the medical tent to get a chest x-ray

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 12h

After that soft illegal contact, Bears get the ball on a turnover

a man with a beard wearing a headband says " ball don 't lie "

ALT: a man with a beard wearing a headband says " ball don 't lie "

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 12h

Charmin soft

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 13h

Probably early December

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 16h

I really liked the second book until I got to the Fae part. I googled “Can I skip the fae” because I could see where it was going, and helpful strangers on Reddit who felt the same way created a three paragraph guide on what you needed to know.

Male fantasy writers and weird sex scenes 🤮

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 17h

The Rothfuss Rule: When publishers buy the rights to a fantasy series, they also receive a completed outline. Publishers would be allowed hire out the completion of that series to the author(s) of their choosing if the original author fails to deliver subsequent volumes within a predetermined time.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 21h

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

These are all sourced from “A People’s History of the United States,” and I struggle to think of a more prescient page from a history book that I have read than this one:

useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiro-shima and Vietnam, to save Western civiliza-tion; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save social-ism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all-that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth.
We have learned to give them exactly the same proportion of attention that teachers and writers often give them in the most respectable of classrooms and textbooks. This learned sense of moral proportion, coming from the apparent objectivity of the scholar, is accepted more easily than when it comes from politicians at press conferences. It is therefore more deadly.
The treatment of heroes (Columbus) and their victims (the Arawaks)-the quiet acceptance of conquest and murder in the name of progress—is only one aspect of a certain approach to history, in which the past is told from the point of view of governments, conquerors, diplomats, leaders. It is as it they, like Columbus, deserve universal acceptance, as if they—the Founding Fathers, Jackson, Lin-

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

The treatment of gender dysphoria is just a little bit more complicated and nuanced than replacing a ball-and-socket joint (not to diminish the amazing work my arthroplasty colleagues do every day).

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Additionally, the number of trans people who regret transitioning is under 5%, and may be under 1%.
Hip replacement, the greatest surgery of all surgeries (not just my opinion), has a regret rate near 10%. Surgery is complicated. It may make you better, but will definitely make to different.

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REVIEW • Volume 370, Issue 9597, P1508-1519, October 27, 2007
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The operation of the century: total hip replacement
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In the 1960s, total hip replacement revolutionised management of elderly patients crippled with arthritis, with very good long-term results. Today, young patients present for hip-replacement surgery hoping to restore their quality of life, which typically includes physically demanding activities. Advances in

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

When I hear transphobic arguments against helping children with gender dysphoria (eg some kids regret transitioning), I am left wondering why trans gender-affirming care is the only medical therapy held to a standard of 100% success rate. My job is infinitely simpler, and we don’t get close to 100%.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan:

Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Hamas: still exists
Hostages: fewer than half are alive

And yet, for Netanyahu, all of this horror and destruction is mission accomplished.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 1d

“This “victory” is actually a defeat — a necessary and blessed defeat — of this government’s messianic vision. In fact, the agreement directly contradicts what the government has sold Israelis for two years: the promise of total victory and the destruction of Hamas.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

Opinion | The Uncomfortable Truth About Netanyahu’s ‘Victory’

www.nytimes.com

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

“Remember that *diagnosis* patient?”

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.