i am the only person i have ever heard of who went into an outpatient clinic, had a partial knee replacement, and was discharged...screaming in pain and not even fully conscious, having spent a total of 5 and a half hours there! my husband asked them to give me something for pain and was told they couldn't give me anything but were sending me a prescription! i didn't even come to in a recovery room bed, but sitting in a chair with a nurse trying to get me to help get myself dressed to leave! the dr. had left, in fact he walked right past my waiting family members and didn't say a word to them! i truly believe he knew he messed me up. i can't even express how little i think of this dr. he has a terrible attitude, he butchered my knee so it is worse than it was before he operated on it and when i questioned him about it, his response to me was he told me it might never be right. that is an outright lie!it has been almost 2 years ago i had my surgery and i am basically crippled from it