In Texas, what is the best way to research and find the bet surgeon.

Good question. I've had good results starting with

.posing the question on my search engine as a start, then follow the trail
Best surgeon for minimally invasive hip replacement in Texas

.best Texas hospital for minimally invasive hip replacement surgery

Ask friends and family

Research further on the names you receive. Education, internships, residencies, patient reviews, accolades, how long have they been doing the procedure , how many have they done? Along the way you will see further bits of info that you can pull on to get more info.

It's a start. I'm sure others will offer more ideas.

@scwiese2713 Hmm, Texas is a pretty big state - it might be helpful if you share your approximate location (or the areas you are willing to travel to) here. You might get some recommendations from other members.

Where are you located, or willing to travel to?

@gravity3 Thank you for this info! I do know the surgeon will make or break the outcome.

@sueinmn Thanks great idea. We do live in the Dallas area and would travel to get the best!

@scwiese2713 Check out the docs practicing at Baylor in Plano. Here is one resource for reviews:
https://health.usnews.com/doctors/hip-replacement/texas/dallas
Also, talk to friends, neighbors, coworkers, and if you know any, physical therapists. The PT was how I found my excellent Minnesota surgeon over 15 years ago.

You might look at Paul Peters at Carrel clinic and Joel Wells in McKinney and Dallas. Looks like dr Wells only works on hips and heads up the Baylor Hip Preservation clinic in addition to performing hip replacements. Would limit your search to drs who have had fellowship training in ortho reconstruction.

For all of our surgeries, including TKR and open heart, and hysterectomy followed by radiation, we started with lists at the www .castleconnolly.com site. It's never failed us. Good luck!

If you know any nurses ask them. I got a referral from an orthopedic nurse through a friend.

@86loop rt
One of my prime methods is similar. I have carefully selected my physicians over the years so I trust them. I ask them who they and their immediate family members use. Even in the largest cities the medical community is fairly small and the great ones and horrible ones are well known within it. For example, I have a highly rated rheumatologist. I was in his office when he received a phone call and took it explaining that he had to take it because it was his wife and she was having her hip replaced the next day. Well, of course, it is the same surgeon doing it who replaced my left hip four years ago and my right knee seven months ago (this was before my surgery).

This is a long winded (sorry) explanation of why you should ask your physicians this question.

I do like the nurse solution as well. I would be less enamored of a PT solution (not that you have suggested it) as the PT might be influenced by which surgeons recommend that their patients use the facility.

I live in Alaska. Because of the cost of medical care up here my insurance uses a service that looks for doctors across the country that can do our surgeries at better prices. They screen the doctors for things like numbers of similar operations per year, number of years experience, and success rates. These are not cheapo doctors. I say that because they use some of the same doctors in Seattle that we would have chosen anyway. For my hip, BMI was an issue that affected my options for surgeons.
For my bilateral hip replacement, they introduced me to Dr. Paul Saadi of Dallas Bone and Joint. He is affiliated with Legent in Plano. I am a year out from the surgeries and I am very satisfied with the results. I also really liked Dr. Saadi as a person.
PS. Prices for medical care in Alaska are sky high. The service my insurance uses, handles payment for the doctor, hospital, PT, flights for the patient and one person to accompany, hotels, food/taxi/miscellaneous per diem and another payment for post surgery AND they still save our insurance 1000’s of dollars as well. My bill for all this was $0.
PPS. Everyone is different but just a word to the wise. I get constipated with opioids and because the hip surgery is near the gastro system, I had an ileus for both surgeries. I got constipated with the opioids for my TKRs but no ileus. I don’t blame the doctors but more how my body reacted to the opioids and pain. It basically shut down my gut for a few days. After the first hip, I put myself on a liquid diet pre- and post- surgery for the second. That helped. No one tells you about this.