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I
'd been thinking about transitioning my total hips from inpa-
tient to outpatient, but hadn't yet taken the leap when the bass
fisherman walked into my clinic. He was quite blunt in telling
me that he wasn't crazy about doctors and he certainly didn't
want to spend a night in the hospital when he had his hip
replaced. He was young and healthy, so I thought, "Why not?"
That decision, made back in 2013, was based on more than just the
fact that I was confronted by an impatient patient. It was based on the
positive results I'd been obtaining for years in inpatient ORs using an
anterior approach.
The Inside Scoop on Same-Day Hip Success
Plenty of planning and a pushy patient helped me make the move to
outpatient ORs.
• HEAD ON Patrick Toy, MD, (center), says the anterior approach is one of the keys to outpatient hip replacement.
Campbell
Clinic
Orthopaedics
Patrick Toy, MD | Memphis, Tenn.
