Asked For A Different Knee Surgeon
[ Sunday October 30th 2022 at 8:44 pm ]
I have reached out to the patient relations group where I have my orthopaedic appointments. I am still displeased with the assessment I had in July 2022. I have asked that my care be transferred to a different knee surgeon. This was followed by a lengthy explanation of why.
By all appearances the intern was not operating in her confident knowledge base. This was followed by the knee surgeon rubber stamping her recommendations. I am not prepared to be their "lab rat" or following a treatment plan that is dispensed out of context. The intern only listened to my answers to her initial 4 questions. I may as well have been a cadaver from that point forward. Her body language demonstrated someone who was operating outside of their confident knowledge base. For me the alarming part was the knee surgeon simply rubber stamping her assessment.
The recommendation was to do more of the same knee physiotherapy that caused my knee to rapidly deteriorate following my hip replacement surgery in 2015. Originally the physiotherapy was for the hip replacement surgery I had just underwent. I was repeatedly loosing the function of my right knee joint. This was preventing me from making any lasting gains with the hip replacement. The physiotherapists were happy to incorporate this into my care. In fact I went through 3 different physiotherapists and my family doctor in an attempt to make gains. It just kept making me worse. In my reasoning asking me to return to this amounts to the definition of insanity with the expectation that I would have a different result. The intern wasn't listening when I had attempted to explain this.
Additionally they wanted me to try a different style of knee cap tracking brace. With the intern only actually listening to the answers of my initial 4 questions this was being recommended out of context. I am not going to blindly follow a treatment plan dispensed in this method. Thus I've asked that I be assigned to a different knee surgeon.