- stupid question - what set of conditions actually cause a person to get a hip replacement surgery apart from an accident?
Hip impingement.
Woman's hip replacement disintegrates, causing metal poisoning
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#22- stupid question - what set of conditions actually cause a person to get a hip replacement surgery apart from an accident?
Cancer is an additional one. A friend of mine is going to have a hip replacement soon now that the cancer in her hip is gone.
Re: Woman's hip replacement disintegrates, causing metal poisoning
#23I do not know who these Very Important Patients are, what sort of insurance they carry, what their social-credit ratings are, or what sort of providers they see, but this article reads to me like an episode of “House MD” or “Doc Martin”. I can only vouch for my personal lived experience, as a mentally ill man living in poverty, on Medicaid and ACA plans. No provider would ever in a million years do this kind of dilig…
You mention mentally ill - do you think that your mental illness could affect your human relationship with doctors?