One Hip Book

A must read for anyone considering hip replacement surgery, especially the new minimally invasive technique developed by the Zimmir Corporation. The author is a nationally award winning journalist who takes readers through the ordeal from diagnosis to four months after his surgery. His story is a personal, moving, and deeply human account that leaves the reader fully informed and comfortable in realizing the worries and rears that naturally arise in every person who faces this major surgery.

Mike Masterson,. 57, lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he writes up to four personal opinion columns each week as a full-time staff columnist for the statewide-circulated Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. His writing and reporting over the years has been nationally honored on more than two dozen occasions, including The George Polk Award, Four Robert F. Kennedy Awards, Two Heywood Broun Awards, Two Clarion Awards and twice he has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Mike also was an Alicia Patterson Fellow in 1976, and was the Kiplinger Professor and director of the Kiplinger Midcareer Program for Professional Journalists at The Ohio State University between 1989 and 1994. In addition to being editor of three Arkansas Daily newspapers over his 33-year career, he has been both a reporter and investigative editor for The Los Angeles Times, The Arizona Republic, The Chicago Sun-Times and the Asbury Park Press.