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Dr. Berry’s No. 1 fan
Steve
Durham has spent years
building multiple banking and investment
companies. He and his wife, Barbara, have
raised three children and even founded
their own philanthropic organization, the
Durham Family Foundation.
Needless to say, Steve is a busy guy.
But in the midst of everything on his
plate, he works out daily.
“When I was in my 30s, I started doing
marathons,” Steve says, who now has 16 of
them to his credit. “Even then, I noticed
problems with my left hip. I went from
orthopedic guy to orthopedic guy to get
shots of cortisone and mitigate the pain.”
Steve realized he couldn’t avoid the pain
anymore while vacationing with his wife
in Santa Barbara in May 2014. The pain
was so unbearable that he couldn’t walk.
A good friend and orthopedic surgeon
suggested a hip replacement immediately.
A fast and easy solution
“I wanted to find someone in Dallas who
could do a procedure as quickly as possible
and as minimally invasive as possible,”
Steve says. “Only a few people in the
Metroplex can do that, and one of them is
Phil Berry.
“I called him up, and he said, ‘Let’s get
together and have a cup of coffee.’ Most docs
won’t do that. That’s how Phil is. The reason
he is still practicing medicine is because
he’s having so much fun using this technique
and seeing the results it has for patients.”
Amazing care, amazing results
Steve’s first exam was June 4, 2014, and
his surgery was scheduled only eight days
later at Methodist Dallas.
“His hip was just completely destroyed,”
Dr. Berry says. “He had an osteoarthritic
hip from degenerative joint disease. It was
bone-on-bone.”
Only a week after surgery, Steve was
swimming and riding the recumbent bike.
Five weeks after surgery, he was able to do
a six-mile hike.
“Now I feel better than I did 30 years
ago,” Steve says. “And at Methodist Dallas,
I had the best hospital experience I’ve had
in the United States.”
His first piece of advice to others
with hip pain is to get to the root of
the problem. “Get the X-ray and
find out precisely what’s wrong,”
he says.
His second piece of advice: Go to
Dr. Berry and Methodist Dallas. “It was
the best care you could imagine.”
On Nov. 3, 2014, patients of orthopedic
surgeon Phil Berry, MD, supported the
Southwest Transplant Foundation’s annual
Golf Classic in his honor. Dr. Berry is a past
liver transplant recipient. Shown here are
(top left) Dr. Berry and Paul Divis; (top
right) Paul and Steve Durham; and (left)
Mayor Mike Rawlings, Paul, John Crawford,
and Steve.
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