Picking a Surgeon

So, from Jimmy Connor's website, I could search for surgeons that used the same technologies and surgical approaches. That led me to Kevin Bozic at the UCSF Medical Center. It took over a month to get an appointment with him but when we met I had a list of questions.

He not only answered them all to my satisfaction, but he answered them before I asked them ... and in the same order that I had written them down!! Hmm. I think we're on the same page.

I had some new xrays taken that morning before I met Dr Bozic. It had been 3-4 years since I'd had xrays taken. The hip had gotten worse. Here's what it looked like (click on the image to zoom)
My right hip (on the left in this picture) was just a confused mass of bone and bone spurs. Compare and contrast with the good hip where there is a identifiable ball buffered from the socket/joint by cartilage. All long gone on the bad hip. No wonder it ain't working so good. Or feeling very good. Ouch!