- stryker made a hip. many different hips, and one particular hip is called a modular hip. a modular hip combines a chrome cobalt neckpiece that fits into a titanium shell. unfortunately, the design coming out of stryker's hip ended up being somewhat of a disaster. the disaster is this: they originally predicted that maybe 0.5% of them were going to fail, but those numbers rapidly rose, and now we're looking at a statistic well about 50% of the components are corroding, and the corrosion creates a reaction surrounding the hip, and then chrome cobalt can be released into the bloodstream. and if that gets released in the bloodstream, major problems can happen to various systems: the teeth, neurologic systems, skin changes... - the company says that it is prepared to write checks for medical expenses. it also says that it's taking care of this situation and constantly monitoring it, as well as collecting data in the medical community. but do you think this is enough? - as we follow these patients, what we fou