Life after surgery✦Recovery✦Resilience✦Comebacks✦Lessons from the O.R.✦Knee & hip✦Sports injuries✦Mindset✦Rehab✦Aging well✦Life after surgery✦Recovery✦Resilience✦Comebacks✦Lessons from the O.R.✦Knee & hip✦Sports injuries✦Mindset✦Rehab✦Aging well✦
Life after surgery✦Recovery✦Resilience✦Comebacks✦Lessons from the O.R.✦Knee & hip✦Sports injuries✦Mindset✦Rehab✦Aging well✦Life after surgery✦Recovery✦Resilience✦Comebacks✦Lessons from the O.R.✦Knee & hip✦Sports injuries✦Mindset✦Rehab✦Aging well✦

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Candid, surgeon-to-surgeon conversations hosted by Dr. Lanny Johnson — newest first.

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Ep. 5
October 19, 2026

Overcoming resistance to innovation: lessons from Dr. Lanny Johnson

Dr. Lanny Johnson’s experience introducing arthroscopy shows that innovation can face years of skepticism before gaining acceptance. His story explores why new ideas are resisted, how documentation and evidence build credibility, and why timing, persistence, and collaboration matter.

Why Orthopodcast

Surgery takes a few hours. Recovery takes the rest of your life. This show is about the rest.

Most medical conversations end when you leave the hospital. Orthopodcast picks up where they stop — with the orthopedic surgeons who guide patients through it, in conversation with a surgeon who has spent five decades watching patients come back.

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From the operating room to the first steps back — find the conversations that fit your recovery.

About the Host

Dr. Lanny Johnson, MD

Dr. Lanny L. Johnson is an orthopedic surgeon and one of the pioneers of arthroscopic surgery. He reported his first 100 arthroscopic cases in 1973, helped develop arthroscopic procedures for the knee, shoulder, elbow and hip, and has gone on to earn more than 75 U.S. patents in medicine and surgery.

On Orthopodcast, he sits down with fellow orthopedic surgeons to talk about what really happens after surgery, the innovations that changed the field, and life after the O.R.

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Dr. Lanny Johnson, orthopedic surgeon and host of Orthopodcast
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