Aug 3, 2021 | News, Orthopedics
CHICAGO, IL – August 3, 2021 – Weiss Memorial Hospital announces Thomas A. McNally, MD, as the medical director of the Spine Center at the Chicago Center for Orthopedics and Robotic-Assisted Surgery. To complement this new leadership, the community hospital has also...
Feb 16, 2021 | News, Orthopedics, Patient Stories
Darcy Jo Wood, 34—billed as “a little lady with a BIG voice”—is not used to an idle life. The professional singer, musician, actress, and producer, usually tours more than 200 days a year with her Chicago-based group, “The Lovettes”, in rollicking retrospective...
Nov 1, 2020 | News, Orthopedics, Patient Stories
Dear Dr. Shehan, I believe you must inspire Excellence… My sister, Kathleen W. was admitted to Weiss on Thursday, July 30 for a complete hip revision performed by Henry Finn M.D. I would like to share with you our experience…consider yourself blessed with the staff...
Nov 1, 2020 | News, Orthopedics, Patient Stories
“Did you see the video of me biking for the first time in 25 years?” asks Rob McClean enthusiastically. His question comes just a few months after a complicated knee-fusion-disassembly surgery finally allowed him to bend his knee–something he could not do for more...
Nov 1, 2020 | News, Orthopedics, Patient Stories
“I’m a person who is not limited in what I want to do,” said Ondrea Tye, 63, a City of Los Angeles Urban Planner. But when a condition called arthrofibrosis afflicted her knee, she experienced some limitations. “My quality of life suffered. I could no longer do much...
Nov 1, 2020 | News, Orthopedics, Patient Stories
Eric Hicks, 31, of Cedar Lake, Indiana was tired of the pain and surgeries over a decade’s time. A knee injury while playing high school football started him on a course that kept getting worse. Hicks underwent 8 surgeries since age 18 – mostly arthroscopic procedures...