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问答

该工具的发展是否可以允许患者和外科医生同样贡献关于医疗保健的决定？
不，外科医生和潜在的医疗保健系统将始终能够胜过患者在不会受益于它的情况下进行手术的决定，但是理解他们与手术的好结果可能性的患者希望能够做出更好的决定。

与物理适用性相比，您认为患者的心理准备程度有多重要？
Both are important, but I think we have undervalued the importance of psychological readiness – in our prior work, patients talked about this a lot… And in research we clearly find that the ‘optimists’ and ‘copers’ are more likely to adhere to their post-operative rehabilitation, etc – so it matters!

在开始手术之前，您发现患者对理解所有医疗保健选择更感兴趣吗？
患者肯定会更加从事他们的医疗保健决策期间......不仅仅是用于手术。They are way more likely now than a decade ago to arrive at their doctor’s office having done their own investigation into the treatment options – our job now is to help them decipher the good evidence based information from the bad stuff – with respect to knee replacement however, people are also wanting more from the surgery than in the past – whereas previously folks wanted surgery mainly to be able to do their basic activities of daily living, now folks are wanting ALSO to be able to exercise, travel, do sports – much more vigorous high impact activities that knee surgery wasn’t designed for.

随着寿命延长，令人遗憾的是修订手术的较高率可悲的是不可避免的，无论初级手术成功还是失败如何？
是的，如果我们减少了对第一个手术的需要，这将有助于很多膝关节骨关节炎对我们的体重减轻体重并保持健康的体重以及保持身体活跃的重量会很长的路要走需要第一个联合更换的人数。关于第二或修订手术，再次，为获得第一个膝关节替换的人的指导，可以让假肢持续时间更长或需要修订，更快地有所帮助。

您在2013年在2013年举行了女王的Jubilee奖章，以便您对骨关节炎研究的持续贡献进行了历史。你职业生涯的亮点是什么？
我很幸运有很多亮点 - 多年来我的学员的许多成功肯定是惊人的......特别是那些现在正在建立自己的职业的人，专注于改善骨关节炎的人们的生活。