In a small operating room at El Buen Samaritano Hospital, a team of surgeons, nurses and surgical personnel work to fix a distal femur fracture. The break is four months old. It wasn’t initially treated with surgery, and it’s left one of the patient’s legs several centimeters short.
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Mark E. Hake, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Trauma
Program Director, Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program
Area of Practice
Orthopaedic Trauma

Stefan Garcia, MD
Resident, Orthopaedic Surgery
Fellowship
Foot and Ankle at University of Colorado
Medical School
University of Michigan
Undergraduate School
University of Colorado Boulder