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- From: larrabee@cse.ucsc.edu (Tracy Larrabee)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Seeking recommendation on California foot/ankle surgeon
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 07:06:37 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
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- Twenty years ago my mother broker her ankle in more places than can
- be counted (it was basically pulverized). She can't really bend it
- much. In conjuction with some problem called "hammer toes," she has
- a lot of trouble walking on the foot attached to the once-broken
- ankle. She can only walk if she wears a heal of the right height
- (when bare-foot she limps a great deal). A doctor of hers told her
- she has one chance to have surgery on the ankle and improve it.
- She wants to get the best person she can to fix the ankle. She is
- in the awkward position of not having the nerve to ask her doctor
- friend for recommendations on surgeons who specialize in that area
- since he also does work in that area and she doesn't want to insult
- him (nor does she want to patronize him). I would like to try to
- get pointers to surgeons who could help her. Southern California
- surgeons would be best, but Norther California would do. I just
- want them to be the best around. I promised her I would ask the
- net, and she is fascinated. I hope someone has a good word for her.
- Please don't tell me to tell her to level with her friend--she won't
- do it, and I can't force her to. I just want to give her any info
- that I can glean.
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- Tracy Larrabee larrabee@cse.ucsc.edu
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