Gringo
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Thanks. Yes I know those x-rays are pretty bad, they were taken locally. Then I tried holding them up with one hand, standing outside in the wind, while snapping a photo with a pocket digital camera. The ones the OS office took two weeks ago, they kept.
I don't know how many knees this doc does a year, I didn't think to ask and it does not appear to be on their website. 500 would seem to be a big number, since he only does surgery on Tuesdays and Thursdays. That would be something like five a day...does that sound reasonable? Probably not, at two hours or more each....
Picking a physician was not something I had a lot of freedom with. I have to fly to the US to even see an OS. If I had been trying to put together a number of them to see in the same week, it would have been difficult. Available apointments were weeks and in some cases months out. I cannot just hop on an airplane to Miami, then another one to Houston, with hotel, rental car, etc. for each doc that someone would recommend. There are dozens in Houston alone..and everybody swears by their own.
So, I basically picked one on the recommendation of a friend ( who was the hospital administrator when this doc was recruited, and who took his own mother to him for a knee) and after checking out his credentials, education, etc. But I don't know how many knees he does. He does other things, too. Hips, etc.
That's encouraging news that you don't see any reasons that a standard off the shelf knee wouldn't work!! Oh boy!
I don't know how many knees this doc does a year, I didn't think to ask and it does not appear to be on their website. 500 would seem to be a big number, since he only does surgery on Tuesdays and Thursdays. That would be something like five a day...does that sound reasonable? Probably not, at two hours or more each....
Picking a physician was not something I had a lot of freedom with. I have to fly to the US to even see an OS. If I had been trying to put together a number of them to see in the same week, it would have been difficult. Available apointments were weeks and in some cases months out. I cannot just hop on an airplane to Miami, then another one to Houston, with hotel, rental car, etc. for each doc that someone would recommend. There are dozens in Houston alone..and everybody swears by their own.
So, I basically picked one on the recommendation of a friend ( who was the hospital administrator when this doc was recruited, and who took his own mother to him for a knee) and after checking out his credentials, education, etc. But I don't know how many knees he does. He does other things, too. Hips, etc.
That's encouraging news that you don't see any reasons that a standard off the shelf knee wouldn't work!! Oh boy!