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Five years ago I had a PKR that failed the time they got me up
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Grr - hit send before I meant to.
This ortho group was known for their specialists, but I didn't know that the one I saw was a new by-in from MI with a history.
Never had surgery before so it was all new to me.
Now my husband, and parents, have both had surgeries and their doctors always came by later in the day to check on them. This jerk I had apparently does not. I asked the nurses if he would be stopping by and they said he never does. THAT tells you a lot about how much he cares about his patients.
If I had known about his other misstep in MI I would never have let him operate on me. IMHO that is why he is now in IN and not MI, word travels.
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@kartwk
I do believe that I have the best hip/knee surgeon in the country so my comments should be understood with that in mind.
He met with me a few days before the surgery to review what he would be facing and his remedies. He was pretty sure I needed a RTKR but said he would double check once he had me open. He does partials, fulls and about 20% of his practice is doing revisions of other surgeons' work.
The day of the surgery we met in the pre-op room at the outpatient facility. He again went over what he would be doing. After the procedure I met him in the post-op room. He also provides his patients with a phone number for after hours use that he promises will always be answered by either himself or his primary PA.
I had a one week appointment with his PA who reviewed my status, cleared me to drive and removed my dressing. I had a five week call with my surgeon and an in person checkup at six months (a couple of weeks ago).
There are variants of this but this, with its variants, is how a knee surgeon is supposed to practice.
Surgeons are professionals and all professionals follow the bell curve: there are a few outliers on the positive end for their patients (no pain) and a few outliers on the negative end (lots of pain and other problems) who should probably have their licenses reviewed and most are somewhere in the middle. From your description, he looks like someone who is on the negative end.
The best advice I can give you is to steer as far away from this guy as you can. If there is such a thing (there isn't) as an order of protection from a knee surgeon, get it! If you ever need another hip or knee replaced, do a ton of research on potential surgeons. Look for those unicorn like extraordinary surgeons, find one and don't leave her.