Case Vignette – March 2021 Implant Breakage Total hip replacements have been performed in one form or another for about a century. By comparison with current standards, the early implants were quite naïve and often failed rather quickly. Professor Sir … Read More
General Advice – March 2021 Is It Worth the Effort? Some aggrieved patients are keen to pursue a perceived under-performing Orthopaedic Surgeon for damages after an adverse event. The anger, frustration and disenchantment all fuel that desire. Some of them … Read More
Lead Article – February 2021 Who Should Take the Rap? An elderly lady was unfortunate enough to fall in a shopping centre. She sustained a fracture involving one of her hips and some associated bruising and lacerations involving her face. … Read More
Case Vignette – February 2021 My Mate with the Medial Meniscal Tear A mate of mine was playing touch football recently and sustained a bucket handle tear involving his medial meniscus. He is in his late forties but is otherwise … Read More
General Advice – February 2021 How Can I Best Boost My Medicolegal Claim? I was approached recently and asked for advice about how a patient could best prepare for a medicolegal claim. The patient had been involved in a road … Read More
Lead Article – January 2021 Shifting Sands The rate of evolution of orthopaedic surgery is extraordinary. Whereas 30 years ago, teenagers or patients in their early twenties would spend six weeks or more in traction following a femoral shaft fracture, … Read More
Case Vignette – January 2021 The Metal-on-Metal Debacle Hip replacements usually involve a metal or ceramic ball articulating with a plastic, ceramic or metal cup, or acetabular component. Articulations between metal/ceramic and plastic or polyethylene usually perform very well and … Read More
General Advice – January 2021 Can the Court System be Trusted? I assume that most lawyers would say “yes”. They have been schooled in the system, belong to the club and have a vested interest. Doctors, not uncommonly, have a … Read More
Lead Article – December 2020 Two in One Week— I have been involved in two medical negligence cases in the last week. They were strikingly similar although from different states, involving patients of different gender and regarding different parts of … Read More
Case Vignette – December 2020 When I was a Young Fella When I was a year 12 high school student, I was involved in a motor cycle accident. It happened during the course of the year 12 examinations and I … Read More