Line up of surgeons performing the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing op throughot the world. Surgeons Performing Hip Resurfacing:-

***Indicates statistics provided by the Doctor

Surgeon list by State & Country

Doctors over 1000 HR : Doctors over 500 HR : Doctors over 100 HR

Updated 12/10/2010 (so pretty well up-to-date. Good)

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Noted that there is a hip talk discussion group as well. Must pop in a see what gives... Interesting discussions. Anyone contemplating this procedure, no matter where they live in the world, then worth while checking through the various posts. And, much discussion on discrepancy in leg length AFTER surgery, whether BHR or THR. Sheesh, there sure does seem to be bad surgical skills out there, doesn't seem hardly to be a single patient who does not end up with leg length discrepancy after surgery! Bad news.

(Was interested to note that there is only one Birmingham Hip Resurfacing surgeon reported as being qualified in this discipline for the whole of France! Sheesh, France is surely 20 years behind the times as so many opine - even some French doctors! Useless - and most worrying.)

Thought you lived in France?

I do - Hence my note: 'Only one BHR surgeon in France - definitely 20 yrs behind the times!' Hopeless situation over here. You can get a reasonable THR done in France, and a pretty reasonable shoulder surgery done - replacement or hemi, i.e. resurfacing. Why, can even get good spinal surgery done, but at only ONE hospital that anyone with any sanity would go to!

Have pretty much decided on leaving here. Their diagnostics are abysmal and the health service in general not upto scratch. Will give em clean hospitals and reasonable nursing care - though not on all counts. As for their PT and rehab programmes? well below par.

For women, never have a babe over here. They INSIST on stuffing the poor newborn with fluoride injections (reasons not given!) and with Vit-D - this last for rickets, as though France was rife with rickets! IF parents refuse, then they wash their hands of you and you wouldn't get govt support by way of their quite excellent child support programme. Hold you by the throat and you have to do as 'they say'. Ha. I'd still tell em to go get lost. The French are real heavy handed, their way or the highway!

No wonder the Brits and the French are forever fighting <LOL>

Vive la France not appropriate then, but does Lincoln compare favourably!!

Alan - Pleeeeese read my post 'en total'... Cor, stone the bleedin crows. Medically speaking, Lincs aint got nowt that anyone in their right minds would want to consult with.

Will give you a good ophtho surgeon at Lincoln Hospital; a lunatic gastro in anaotheer hospital in Lincs, who is soooo intent on getting to the top of the bottom that he is in danger of perforating the gut (he has record for just that! And, almost did for me...Oh boy, was he ever near as perforating me as a miracle that he didn't) and C-Diff in another Lincs Hospital in the orthopaedic wards like it's going out of fashion - known em several times closed in a single year, including for my own op! That was when I should have cut an RUN. Didn't, and paid for it by crap surgery.

Don't get me started, an you don't really want to know man. I refuse ever again to enter a hospital in Lincs. End of story. (Or, for that matter, the orthopaedic wards in Notts...no way). You, Alan, was not in a general orthopaedic ward in Notts, you were in the spine unit under Mr Webb - different story. I still shudder at what I went through there. No. Never again.

Orthopaedics, either the Royal Orthopaedic, London OR the Wrightington, no other.

Linclon has a good prison though..!

Yes. Good prison and, right across from the hospital! <VBG>

and the cathedral....wow

Give you that, except, they will insist on playing *endlessly electronic bells - clang, clang, clang, hour after hour... Walks aaround the cathedral are lovely as well, and the old town - IF only they'd stop continuousy playing those darn electronic bells.

But none of that has owt to do with the medical scene either in Lincoln itself or with the medical scene and hospitals in particular in Lincolnshire!

Lincolnshire itself is glorious, quite my fave area in Englsnd, most of it still UNspoilt. Lovely walks and excellent riding out - except on those trails utterly runed by the offroaders and dirt bikes. Police are unable to stop em. Sigh. Some tracks are now totally useless for horses as they are shot to blazers, and made dangerous by all the ruts. Shame. Heck, can't even walk on them as in danger of twisting ankles etc etc.

I was in the prison at Lincoln...