Dr. Arthur L. Jenkins, III MD FACS FAANS is a board certified, fellowship trained neurosurgeon who specializes in spinal surgery in his “academic” private practice (Jenkins NeuroSpine). He has developed a dozen minimally invasive treatments to improve surgical outcomes for patients with disorders from the skull base to the tailbone; as well he holds patents and patent applications on a dozen different ways to improve patient outcomes. He is developing new treatments with academic researchers, startup biotech companies, and private practice experts in several fields. He specializes in minimally invasive treatments to reduce recovery times and improve outcomes, and rare, poorly understood conditions where his insights are changing lives. He treats patients from around the world with his combination of passion, empathy, and unparalleled diagnostic and surgical skills, out of his offices and hospitals in the New York City Region. He is on every top doctor list for which he is eligible, including: Vitals “Top 1%” of Neurosurgeons, Castle Connelly “Top Doctors” lists for the New York region, the United States, and for Cancer, New York Magazine’s “Top Doctors”, among MANY others.
Empathy gets rationed when a high-volume practice is valued over a high-quality practice by administrators who aren’t seeing the patients in clinic — but patients rely on surgeons who can embrace the complex conditions.