an ominous warning about the device in her other hip, the one repaired half a decade before. It read: “The purpose of this letter is to reinforce our recommendation to you for continuing close follow up of you and your hip replacement. . . . Some recent design innovations in hip replacement implants have led to increasing concerns about the potential for adverse reactions.” Ms. Baxter’s Stryker Rejuvenate implant is not mentioned by name. Nor does the letter mention that the Stryker Rejuvenate had been recalled six months earlier, which Ms. Baxter only later discovered on Google. The company
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