CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Every day at Advanced Pain Management of Virginia, Dr. Scott Wagner is helping patients find long, lasting relief from their pain.
The work he doing now is the culmination of a long journey, in which Wagner explored a variety of medical disciplines and experience. But even with the amount of expertise that he holds now, he said he’s “not a guy who wears his degrees on his sleeves.”
“The thing [that] was interesting to me was the knowledge I was getting and how to apply it,” he said.
From the diamond to medical school
Before fully venturing into the medical field, Wagner was a college baseball player working toward his master’s in sports medicine. Upon completing his degree, it was his extra year-and-a-half of eligibility that pushed him to apply to medical school at Vanderbilt, as the suggestion of one of his professors. At first, he laughed at the idea, but ended up going, studying the general basics of medicine before getting into an orthopedic program…