Hip replacement surgery lawsuits

 Nick had hip replacement surgery a few years ago.  Since he was fairly young and athletic, his doctor recommended  using Zimmer Metasul Durom hip replacement cups for the surgery.  These were specially designed for younger people who are likely to outlive a conventional hip prosthesis.  Since then we’ve been hearing that there are a lot of medical and legal issues on zimmer durom cup.  Apparently there is a significant failure rate that was unexpected!

Well, of course there has been a lot of scrambling going on by Zimmer, trying to get releases signed by the patients, to release them from any liability if anything should happen to the cup down the road.  Zimmer is trying to lay the blame of the durom cups failures on surgeon error.  Nick told me that he is going to get as much information as he can about the issues and find a durom lawyer to represent him in the event that he needs to file a durom lawsuit.

The king is dead

I was very saddened to learn of the passing of Michael Jackson. He was one of the most talented people in show business. We’ll never know for sure if he was a pedophile, but we DO know for sure that he was a really good songwriter, singer, dancer, and choreographer. The music industry will miss him terribly. As I was watching the news about how people were reacting to the news, the show kept cutting to people standing around the Apollo theatre. The were celebrating his life. Although I commend people for celebrating the life of someone who has passed, I felt that there were way too many people who were just interested in having their faces plastered on television. That disgusted me more than you can even imagine!