Doctor Profile: Luis Pulido, MD, FAAOS

Dr. Pulido: My name is Luis Pulido. I’m an orthopedic surgeon. I’m a husband and father. My specialty and my passion in orthopaedics is joint reconstruction, which is treatment of hip and knee arthritis. So most of our patients come to see us with disabling hip and knee pain. It comes in different ages. It could be someone in their twenties or thirties or, more frequently, patients close to retirement or after retirement because the prevalence of hip and knee arthritis starts to grow in those patients. The majority of my patients come with disabling hip and knee pain, secondary to wear anterior arthritis.

My philosophy, when I treat patients, I like to put myself in their shoes, or I like to treat them as if they’re one of my family members. So for me, every patient that comes in my office, I make sure they feel welcome. They feel that they’re receiving their best possible care, and they’re receiving the right treatment for their condition.

I feel like I have the best job in the world. I’m privileged. I’m privileged because my “why” or my reason to do what I do comes with the satisfaction of helping others and that is very rewarding. Also, fortunately, the field that I chose with joint replacement surgery, we get really good results. We see those patients that come back to us, we changed their lives. They’re really happy with the care we provided. They don’t have pain anymore. They improve their mobility. They’re getting back to doing the things that they enjoy doing. So for me, that’s the purpose of what I do.

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