Bob Arnot has done a number of different things in his life. Starting as a medical doctor with an active background, he ended up being a physician for the US Ski Team from 1977 to 1980 and for the 1980 Winter Games. It was there that he was introduced to television. Still, he continued an active medical career practicing emergency room medicine and serving as the national medical director of the National Emergency Service until 1984. From 1981 until the mid 1990s, he served as a medical correspondent for a major network’s news program. Upon changing networks, he became more than just a medical correspondent, eventually being named chief war correspondent for the network in Afghanistan. He eventually left that position to start Dr. Danger, the MojoHD high definition television adventure show that takes viewers to some of the world’s most dangerous regions.

During all of this, Bob continued to be an active sportsman, participating in marathons, bike races, ski competitions, marathon cross ski races, big wall ice climbing, big wave surfing and even dodging bullets in a handful of wars. Eventually, he developed arthritis in both hips. Although he continued to be very active as Dr. Danger, he had pain that made it more difficult. Rock climbing, hiking and scrambling around on these adventures became a challenge. Because of his difficult schedule, he elected to have both hips resurfaced at once. Now Bob is back riding bikes and enjoying life, and he is looking forward to being back in action in his new season of Dr. Danger.

Bob gave his story to the Surface Hippy Info web site:

"As a television medical correspondent for decades on shows like Today, Dateline and the CBS evening News and author of 12 books on consumer medicine, I have to admit it. I have never faced a more vexing decision than choosing between a total hip replacement and hip resurfacing. One prominent surgeon said, 'you have no choice. Your hips are too far gone. You’ll have to have THR.' I thought for a moment, 'Boy if I’m confused as a physician and sports medicine expert, what chance on earth does the average patient have of making the right decision?' One good answer is, because they are both excellent choices. Still there had to be a right decision.

"Then I came upon Surface Hippy Website and read everything on it.

"While American surgeons emphasize pain as the main reason for surgery, I have a very high threshold, did tons of yoga and never had terrible pain. The British emphasize functional criterion. I had a terrible limp, striking waddling gait abnormalities, an abductor lurch and large hip contractures. As my fourteen year old son said before surgery, 'Dad, you look old, really old.' If I had one piece of advice it would be, get a great functional exam and use that to decide rather than pain alone. Curiously, all my pain was in my knees. My hips had thrown my biomechanics off so badly, that I was at risk of slowly destroying my knees."

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