Born and raised in Southern California, I'm a hip and knee surgeon passionate about the intersection of musculoskeletal medicine, technology, and healthcare delivery.
There’s just not enough time – or enough incentive – to convey and process the gravity of undergoing a joint replacement .
The ubiquity of artificial joints in this Society and its overall resounding success has socially engineered our perception to convince us that metal and plastic means “happily ever after.” Disturbingly, the emphasis on volume makes it easier to sign a patient up for surgery than it is to educate and empower patients to make a balanced, personal decision about the realities after joint replacement.
For the surgeons routinely managing the realities of failed joint replacements in terms of real human limbs and lives – and not line items – “economies of scale” starts to feel a lot more like calamities of scale. The surgery is complex and far more taxing mentally and physically. Compared to a first-time knee replacement, revising a failed knee involvesto the surgeon, system, and insurance plan when accounting for time spent.
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