“Patients sometimes latch on to a particular buzzword, he notes: They go, ‘Well, I want X, Y and Z – you know, an anterior approach and metal-on-metal; I want minimally invasive; and I want this and that.’” That’s all fine, he adds, but what you really want is a surgeon who’s done plenty of procedures. You want a specialist in hip and knee replacements rather than a generalist. Especially if you’re in a metropolitan area where there’s a lot of expertise,  really alot of this is just pure common sense.”

Mathias Bostrom, the orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery