Clarence

uh uh we should be watching for we would uh we we may be able to assist better and so from from my perspective i think it's a it's a great a reminder of what we as as uh health care practitioners need to be doing in order to help to address this issue but so i want to just thank you for you know for the uh for the dialogue well i'm happy to be here thanks for having me and and stefan thanks for um

uh uh we should be watching for we would uh we we may be able to assist better and so from from my perspective i think it's a it's a great a reminder of what we as as uh health care practitioners need to be doing in order to help to address this issue but so i want to just thank you for you know for the uh for the dialogue well i'm happy to be here thanks for having me and and stefan thanks for um

Yeah.

Clarence.

Dr. Fisher, I'd like to ask you this question.

Okay.

Why do people, I want you to just tell us, what are some of the excuses people have given you for waiting so long to get their knees replaced?

The reason I ask that question is because I had to get my knees replaced and I stood to pain for years.

I used to be in my bed and cry at night because the pain was so excruciating.

I never understood the psychological whatever it took for me to go to the doctor.

Why do people wait so long to get their room replaced?

It's funny, I see people walking around and they know that they need a knee replacement.

Like that little duck you talked about, they walk around like a little duck, but they will not go see, get that knee replaced.

And so I thought it's very interesting that people, I don't know,

I don't know how they view knee replacements, but it's very interesting to see, in my life, to see the pain that people have put up with in order to not get their knees replaced.

As you were talking, I remember I got a shot before I went to Africa.

And that cortisone worked perfectly that first time.

But the second and the third time, it didn't work at all.

But what I want to ask is this, is that

What other kind of conditions lead to the need for knee replacement?