DePuy is playing dirty on the cost of victims
Highly interesting facts on the ‘DePuy Kick-Backs for Surgeons’, but that is not all, it comes even worst for us as victims of the entire nightmare ‘hip replacement gone bad’:
1. My right hip was replaced using one of the DePuy devices 2 days before Christmas 2008.
2. For the first 3 months after surgery I was unable to lie down straight in bed, only changing certain positions hourly sitting in a recliner allowed me to bear severe and violent pain.
3. Once I was ordered to walk on full weight, I was never able to walk more than half a mile without severe pain kicking in. Actually, my hip replaced leg starts hurting badly when I walk only very short distances. Now, almost 2 years after surgery, many times severe pain kicks in when I just sit or lie down.
My surgeon always suggested to be patient as recovery from a severe operation like that could take up to a year.
4. The last time I saw my surgeon was a little over one year post-surgery. Again, I told him how severe my pains still were.
5. During this past spring/summer I tried to see my surgeon again. Mainly because I was suffering more and more. Unfortunately, due to my long tern ‘Leave of Absence’ I had lost my job and all my benefits including health insurance. My surgeon’s front office told me over the phone that I would have to pay a fee of $160 just to see the doctor as an uninsured person. I thought that that was odd because my surgeon and office knew that I never had recovered from all the post-op pains.
6. Just a short time ago I learned about the recalls and class-action lawsuits on the DePuy devices. Well, it took 4 phone calls and leaving messages with my surgeon’s office. Now, they finally returned my 4th call, and informed me that my hip replacement is a DuPuy device. Not without to mention that my hip replacement might not a DePuy device under the recall……Can you imagine a statement like that? To a patient who cannot sleep for more than an hour at a time because of severe pain in the area where hip was replaced?
After that statement of my surgeon’s office, I am not just questioning the possibly illegal $114 million in kick backs to surgeons, furthermore I am questioning if surgeons are still paid by DePuy Orthopedics. Now, only to put up a ‘first line of defense’ against patients so they don’t participate in law suits. Well, I forwarded my case to a lawyer’s office in Sarasota/Florida.
Worst comes worst:
My law office just told me that DePuy is trying to get patients to sign medical release papers from hospitals. Supposedely, they claim that they would examine their bad devices. But investigators found out already that DePuy is destroying these devices in fact. All in order to get rid of evidence needed for class action law suits and upcoming trials.
My personal situation and circumstances make me almost angry. I apologize for that, but meanwhile and gathering a lot of information, who knows whether it is just DePuy hip replacements on recall, or is it all of their hip replacement devices?
That is why I titled my article 'DePuy or DePuke Hip Replacements'! 
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