@ldean31 I don't intend this as criticism but as information. Before you started with the replacement, did you ask your GP for his opinion? The medical community, even in large cities, is fairly cohesive and the members know who is good and who is not.

From your post it seems clear that your GP has seen bad work come from your surgeon.

A while back my neurologist had sent me to a rheumatologist to make sure that my problems were not in his domain. My rheumatologist is the top rated one in greater Phoenix. I am sitting in his office when he gets a phone call and apologizes and explains that the caller is his wife and she is getting a hip replacement the next day so he has to take the call. Who is the hip surgeon...Dr. Chow of course. The other members of the medical community know who is good!