New, Updated Guide to Hip Replacement Announced

Responding to the importance of “patients being part of the solution, ” M.E. Hecht, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon, has written a guide for patients about to undergo hip replacement surgery. Titled A Practical Guide to Hip Surgery, the book provides readers with all the details before undergoing hip replacement or hip resurfacing surgery, directly from an orthopedic surgeon. Hecht has performed countless hip surgeries and has undergone a double hip replacement herself.

Besides informing patients and walking them through the process of total hip replacement or hip resurfacing from diagnosis to recovery, the book is written to be of help to the many orthopedic surgeons who simply don’t have the time to explain in-depth the entire surgical process and how to be prepared. The publisher says that the book is meant to augment the materials (pamphlets, booklets, visual presentations) currently available in offices today.

Dr. Hecht besides being an orthopedic surgeon, writes both fiction and non fiction. She has written for Vogue Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, American Medical News, Medical Tribune, Nations Business and other publications. She is the Assistant Chief of Orthopedics at Elmhurst Hospital, an affiliate of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. The book is published by Sunrise River Press headquartered in North Branch Minnesota. The publisher can be reached at 1-800-895-4585.