Referring Physicians
PARTNER WITH CONFIDENCE
Your reputation, protected by the referral.
Some cases don’t need another opinion — they need a plan. Dr. Baker takes on the revisions, infections, and complex primaries that other surgeons hesitate to commit to, and gives you a clear, direct read on next steps. No vague “let’s take a look.” Just an honest answer about what he can do and how fast he’ll do it.
“Half-measures don’t help anybody. If a decision needs to be made, I’d rather make it than wait around.”
A referral that reflects well on you.
The surgeon you send a patient to says something about you, too. Dr. Baker prefers the complex cases—failed replacements, infections, complications with no clear next step—and treats them decisively instead of managing them indefinitely. Your patient gets a real plan. You get a referral you don’t have to think twice about.
What he takes on:
- Revision surgery for failed total hip and total knee replacements
- Periprosthetic joint infection, including single-stage revision when appropriate
- Complex primary cases — periprosthetic fracture, prior trauma, difficult anatomy
- Second opinions on cases where the path forward isn’t clear
If a case has stalled — a patient in an extended antibiotic holding pattern, an ambiguous revision, a primary that turned out more complicated than expected — this is exactly the referral base Dr. Baker built his practice around.
His clinical position.
Dr. Baker treats infection and revision as a decision to be made, not a staged process to manage indefinitely. He has a documented position against extended “1.5-stage” treatment in favor of single-stage revision when the case supports it — based on patient selection, organism, and bone stock, not a default protocol.
He was an early, practical adopter of intra-articular antibiotic pathways and continues to use modern cementless implants, including cementless patella components, supported by current data rather than outdated caution. Robotic-assisted and functional-alignment techniques are used selectively, where they change outcomes — not as standard practice for every case.
Dr. Baker’s approach is grounded in outcomes data, not just clinical instinct. His recent co-authored work in Arthroplasty Today on patient-reported outcomes in robotic-assisted versus manual cementless total knee arthroplasty reflects the same standard he applies to referred cases: use what’s proven to help, and say so plainly when it doesn’t.
A new address, not a new standard.
To better serve patients and referring physicians, Dr. Baker has moved his practice to Norton Healthcare. The building is new. He isn’t. He’s still the surgeon who excels at the complicated cases, still the one who explains the plan before he acts on it, and still shows up to do right by the people in front of him.
Refer a patient.
You know your patient better than a form ever will — this is just the fastest way to get the case in front of Dr. Baker. Reach out through this form or call him at: (502) 587-8222