Though many children follow in their parents? footsteps, rarely do they end up working with them.
For Drs. Charles Edwards and Charles Edwards II at the Maryland Spine Center at Mercy Medical Center, this is not the case.
The director of the Maryland Spine Center, Dr. Charles Edwards has worked extensively in the field of spinal surgery since 1982 and now practices at Mercy as well as teaches orthopedics at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
His son, a surgeon with the Maryland Spine Center, often works alongside his father on tougher cases.
Describing a recent pairing of the two surgeons, Edwards II said that “by working together, it was not only enjoyable to us, but also beneficial to the patient.”
While the senior Dr. Edwards brings decades of research and training to the field of orthopedics, the addition of his son brings an independent perspective to the Spine Center that helps to “kickstart the rate of future developments,” said the father.
Realizing the importance that the “full body of understanding be passed,” he tries to “merge the understanding” into his students, and asks, “who better than your own son?”
Both father and son agreed that working together at the Spine Center has “expanded our relationship beyond that of the dinner table to the operating table,” as Dr. Edwards put it.
