I was granted access last week to cover a hip replacement surgery at Uintah Basin Medical Center in Roosevelt for a three part series on the procedure. The patient, Craig Jenks, and his wife are hoping to educate people about the benefits of the surgery to eliminate chronic hip pain and restore quality of life. The pictures I captured in the operating room were pretty graphic, maybe too much so for the elderly women who typically undergo hip replacement surgery, but they're a true representation of the procedure. Dr. Mark Mason uses a mallet to hammer in the porous steel cup that will form the socket of Craig Jenks' artificial hip joint. Photo credit: Geoff Liesik
