Physician: Orthopedic Hip and Joint Surgeon - Orland Park and Mokena, IL
Posted Sep 17, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Three clinic days and two operating days a week. How does that fit your life?
What they are checking: The posting states the split precisely.
Call is equitably shared across weekdays and weekends. What would you want to know about it?
What they are checking: The posting says equitably shared without stating a rotation.
Clinics at Orland Park, Palos Heights and Mokena, with theatre at Palos and the Orland Park surgical center. How does that fit your life?
What they are checking: The posting names three clinics and two operating sites.
The salary range is six hundred nineteen to eight hundred forty-nine thousand. What would you want to understand about how that is structured?
What they are checking: The posting gives the range but not whether it is base or production-based.
What would you do
How do you counsel a patient about what they can expect afterward?
What they are checking: Expectation setting is what decides patient satisfaction after a replacement.
About the work
Tell me about your hip and joint fellowship and practice.
What they are checking: The posting requires fellowship training in total joint surgery.
What is your case mix, and what do you most want to be doing?
What they are checking: Total joint practice ranges from primary replacement to complex revision.
Tell me about your revision experience.
What they are checking: Revision work decides how much a joint program can take on.
How do you decide a patient is not ready for a joint replacement?
What they are checking: The most consequential decision in elective joint surgery.
How do you handle a periprosthetic infection?
What they are checking: The complication that defines joint replacement outcomes.
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