It is interesting how people feel choosing their surgeon is important. Unless you are in the trade, and work in the particular hospital, it is highly unlikely you will be able to tell how good the surgeon is.
I am about to have my first hip replacement, and had no intention of trying to choose my surgeon, and I worked closely with the Orthopaedic surgeons at that hospital for over 20 years.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
It is interesting how people feel choosing their surgeon is important. Unless you are in the trade, and work in the particular hospital, it is highly unlikely you will be able to tell how good the surgeon is.
I am about to have my first hip replacement, and had no intention of trying to choose my surgeon, and I worked closely with the Orthopaedic surgeons at that hospital for over 20 years.
Quite so, @Hostafan1. The good articles are written by Drs., and the bad ones, by the dangerously disturbed, with axes to grind. I can still remember being asked by a distraught wife, why I was not cryo preserving her dead husband, because she had read it was easy.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
The NHS has saved the lives of three members of my family this year .., and saved the most of the sight of another family member following a serious mistake made by a doctor in a private hospital.
A few years ago my brother was having a precautionary colonoscopy at a private hospital. They perforated his colon and he haemorrhaged …
He was blue-lighted to the nearest A&E as the private hospital were not equipped to deal with emergencies.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I remember being in the high dependency unit after one of my surgeries and in the early hours of the morning, a trolley with a patient from a private hospital came crashing through the doors…🥲
Parts of the UK NHS work very well and are centres of excellence but there is a well known "postcode lottery" in NHS provision of care for certain conditions from mental care to IVF and dentistry. It's also far better at emergency than elective or planned procedures which can be cancelled repeatedly because of things like bed blocking.
Far too many Brits swallow the PR tale that the NHS is the best system in the world but it is neither the first NHS nor the best. Germany got there in the 1860s and is system has evolved as medicine and needs have changed and their system was deliberately designed to be managed outside the political system so there are no problems with funding cuts from one cycle to the next.
In Belgium, when I needed my feet sorting out in 2013 the nearest "expert" told me it was impossible to fix my particular problem and that if he tried to relieve it by doing my inherited bunions I'd be in for 2 years of pain and no guarantee of success. I did some online reserach of ther foot specialist facilities and found the magician surgeon I needed in the same clininc in Brussels that had sorted out my vertebrae.
Now check out people like @Busy-Lizzie's OH who had to wait almost 3 years to get a hip replacement and all those people like @Lyn's son or @Nanny Beach who can't get cohesive, comprehensive or conistent care.
As for you, @punkdoc, as a trained and experience surgeon yourself I do have to wonder why you feel incompetent to research who may be the best surgeon to do your hip. It's not that dfferent from chatting with acquaintances and friends about the best local restuarants witha good chef or th ebest local car mechanics for your brand of car. Surely you have old contacts to talk to as well as word of mouth and the Royal College of Surgeons own website with data on surgical outcomes.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Unless you are in the trade, and work in the particular hospital, it is highly unlikely you will be able to tell how good the surgeon is.
I am about to have my first hip replacement, and had no intention of trying to choose my surgeon, and I worked closely with the Orthopaedic surgeons at that hospital for over 20 years.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
The good articles are written by Drs., and the bad ones, by the dangerously disturbed, with axes to grind.
I can still remember being asked by a distraught wife, why I was not cryo preserving her dead husband, because she had read it was easy.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
A few years ago my brother was having a precautionary colonoscopy at a private hospital. They perforated his colon and he haemorrhaged …
He was blue-lighted to the nearest A&E as the private hospital were not equipped to deal with emergencies.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That was £3,500 well spent , NOT!
Far too many Brits swallow the PR tale that the NHS is the best system in the world but it is neither the first NHS nor the best. Germany got there in the 1860s and is system has evolved as medicine and needs have changed and their system was deliberately designed to be managed outside the political system so there are no problems with funding cuts from one cycle to the next.
In Belgium, when I needed my feet sorting out in 2013 the nearest "expert" told me it was impossible to fix my particular problem and that if he tried to relieve it by doing my inherited bunions I'd be in for 2 years of pain and no guarantee of success. I did some online reserach of ther foot specialist facilities and found the magician surgeon I needed in the same clininc in Brussels that had sorted out my vertebrae.
Now check out people like @Busy-Lizzie's OH who had to wait almost 3 years to get a hip replacement and all those people like @Lyn's son or @Nanny Beach who can't get cohesive, comprehensive or conistent care.
As for you, @punkdoc, as a trained and experience surgeon yourself I do have to wonder why you feel incompetent to research who may be the best surgeon to do your hip. It's not that dfferent from chatting with acquaintances and friends about the best local restuarants witha good chef or th ebest local car mechanics for your brand of car. Surely you have old contacts to talk to as well as word of mouth and the Royal College of Surgeons own website with data on surgical outcomes.