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I met so many wonderful doctors
there, it was truly amazing. The hardest thing
for me was getting used to calling them by their
first names, that was weird! Some of the
wonderful docs I had a chance to speak with in
detail were Mr. McMinn, Mr. Treacy, Dr. Su, Dr.
Rogerson, Dr. Ure, Dr. Raterman, Dr. Rector and
Dr. Cynthia Kelly. I just had to meet one of the
very few female resurfacing surgeons out there.
I also met quite a few other doctors but did not
have the opportunity to talk with them since
time was so limited. The highlight of my trip
besides meeting some of the greats was being
able to attend the cadaver training, wow! What
an experience, hopefully I will post some
pictures of that shortly. All I can say is, I
would not want to be a surgeon's first.
It is my "opinion" that this is not a procedure
that all surgeons are cut out for. There will be
an elite group that will rise to the top in this
field, the ones that possess the natural skill
set for precision and placement and desire to
perfect their techniques. Many will end up
dropping out due to the complexity of this
procedure. We have already seen here on surface
hippy those that have made it to that elite
group already. Some of the earlier adopters took
the time to travel to the UK to learn this
procedure then go on to observe other surgeons
prior to performing their first procedure. I
believe this will be a key to those that will
make it and those that will not. This should be
a question added to the list of questions to ask
a new doctor. What training did they have, and
was it any more than just one training session,
did they also go to other surgeons and observe
the surgery or train with them.
I introduced myself as a regular poster on
surface hippy. Many docs were well aware of it
and some even knew me by name. There were
several that had never heard of us. Those that
had not, I happily gave them my card and wrote
the info for them on the back of it. It was also
very interesting that on several of the slides
during the presentations, there was mention of
surface hippy. This community is really on the
map in the ortho community. When people found
out I had a BHR, they started to watch me walk,
I was not aware of this. The last day some of
the S&N reps came up to me and asked me which
hip it was, they were betting it was my right.
Wrong, I had my left hip done. I thought that
was cool, since I wore high heels most of the
time it is a good thing I didn't get blisters
until the last day. :-)
A lot of doors have opened up here for us. I now
have direct email addresses for some of the top
in the world that I did not have access to
before. They have agreed to comment on several
important issues regarding approaches, cemented/cementless,
etc. and allow me to post it on the two boards.
I will be putting together with Pat more quotes
from some of these greats to add to the
surfacehippy.info site as well as to the files
section here.
Of course first of all, I was blown away by Mr.
McMinn and Treacy, absolutely blown away. Two
extremely charming, funny and dedicated
surgeons. They now walk on water for me even
more than before. Since I was Cory's guest and
he was the guest speaker, I had the privilege of
sitting at the head table with both of them at
dinner on Friday night as well as the President
of S&N, the elite group of MMT guys from the UK
that were involved in the development of the BHR
device and Dr. Bose. What an honor.
I have to say that I was extremely impressed by
Dr. Rogerson, Dr. Raterman and Dr. Su. Dr. Su
did a live surgery for a room full of orthopedic
surgeons, not an easy task to do. I wonder who
the patient was. Anyone have surgery with Dr. Su
early morning last Thursday? Both Dr. Raterman
and Dr. Rogerson are approaching 250
resurfacings each and Dr. Su is now at over 400.
I would recommend any one of these surgeons in a
hearbeat. Their dedication to resurfacing was
very apparent to me.
Now this post was just my personal thoughts and
I am NO medical expert and have never pretended
to be, I also do not play one on TV. :-) More to
follow.
Let me clarify that although this conference was
put on by S&N, the majority of data that was
presented were studies done that will be
published and came from unbiased sources. Pat
Campbell was one presenter and she comes from
UCLA and the JRI group, etc. Also all the orthos
that attended can choose different devices, so
although the conference was sponsored by S&N the
data was not just regarding the BHR device.
Vicky
LBHR Dr. Bose Dec 01 05
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