Ingram's named Dr. Shannon Carpenter to its 2026 class of Top Doctors in its October Special Medical Edition, the 30th class since the program began in 1997. Honorees are chosen by the magazine's editorial selection committee from recommendations by health-care professionals and past Top Doctors. Her profile follows an orthopedic surgeon trained to repair fractures who kept seeing patients go home after a break without a bone-density test, and some come back with a fracture of the hip or spine. In 2022 she opened The Bone Health Clinic in Lenexa to change that: each patient's history, medications, nutrition, labs, family history and fall risk are part of the plan, and patients are followed over years instead of weeks.
“The cases I still think about are the ones where nothing happened.”
“The fracture gets treated, but the underlying disease process in the bone doesn't.”
“I knew that second fracture could have been prevented.”
“I can prevent the fracture instead of just fixing it.”
“With my bone-health patients, I feel like I'm saving lives, not just lifestyles.”
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