

Tower had a mental breakdown and trashed his hotel room. One night while attending a medical conference Dr. His ears started ringing, his thinking became confused and he began repeating himself when he spoke.

He chose the DePuy ASR metal-on-metal artificial hip because it was marketed to “exceptionally active individuals.” Several months after his hip replacement surgery, however, Dr. Tower is an avid cyclist and needed a hip replacement several years ago. He is featured in the Netflix medical device documentary The Bleeding Edge. While hip manufacturers have been slow to produce meaningful studies on the ill-effects of metallosis on the human body, Dr. Tower has built a one-man research laboratory studying the horrifying health effects of chrome and cobalt hip components.

An orthopedic surgeon in Anchorage Alaska, Dr. If you have any interest in artificial hips, you need to follow the work of Dr.
