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I was just out of college and I believe I was involved in all conversations with the care team. My sister suffered from a rare congenital condition (MPS, Morquio syndrome) which among myriad other complications involved arthritis in the hips. (Something I didn't mention is that she was expected to live less than a decade after the surgery, which proved roughly accurate.) The surgeon was willing to discuss risk vs. benefit (although absolutely not quantitatively), but only after we brought it up after the anesthesiologist approached us. It was never discussed beforehand, to the best of my recollection.