About Edition
Core
Core
Principles
The commitments that shape how we practice, how we treat patients, and how we show up for one another every day.
The commitments that shape how we practice, how we treat patients, and how we show up for one another every day.
We honor God in everything that we do.
This principle sits at the foundation of the practice — not as a statement made for effect, but as a sincere expression of how Dr. Schwartz approaches his work and his responsibility to others. Medicine, at its best, is an act of service. The privilege of caring for another person — of being trusted with their health, their body, and their sense of themselves — is not taken lightly here.
Honoring God in everything means bringing integrity to every decision, treating every patient with dignity and honesty, and approaching the work with humility. It means doing the right thing when no one is watching, being truthful about what surgery can and cannot achieve, and never placing profit or convenience above the wellbeing of a patient. It is the quiet standard behind every interaction at Edition.
We strive to solve the problems that our patients bring us to the very best of our abilities.
Every patient arrives with something specific — a concern they have carried, a change they have been considering, a problem that has affected how they feel about themselves. Our obligation is to understand that concern completely and to bring everything we have to addressing it. Not a templated solution, not a convenient answer, but a genuine effort to solve the actual problem in front of us.
This means that Dr. Schwartz and the team invest time in understanding each patient's goals before offering any recommendation. It means being honest when surgery is the right answer and equally honest when it is not. It means maintaining the technical skill, the clinical judgment, and the artistic sensibility to deliver results that reflect our best — and holding ourselves accountable to that standard on every case, regardless of complexity.
We work together as a team to lift each other up and develop one another to our highest potential.
The experience a patient has at Edition is shaped by every person on the team — not only by the surgeon. The quality of that experience depends on how well we support one another, how honestly we communicate, and how seriously each person takes their role in the whole. A practice that operates at a high level is not the result of one exceptional person; it is the result of a team that holds itself to a shared standard and genuinely invests in each other's growth.
At Edition, this means creating an environment where every team member is encouraged to develop their skills, voice their perspective, and take pride in their contribution. It means that when someone struggles, the response is support — not judgment. And it means that the success of one person here is understood as a success for the entire practice. The patients in our care are best served by a team that is healthy, cohesive, and always reaching toward something better.
Principles mean nothing without the daily decisions that either honor them or don't. At Edition, these three commitments are not framed on a wall — they are the lens through which we evaluate how we are doing and where we need to improve.
When you come to us as a patient, you are not simply engaging a surgical service. You are placing trust in a team that has made a commitment to something larger than any single outcome. We take that trust seriously — and these principles are the reason why.
A consultation with Dr. Schwartz is unhurried, informative, and entirely without obligation.