Orthopods generally have surgery days at a hospital (or their office if so equipped) and generally schedule several cases in a morning. The tools are quite good, and if the doc is good, it may not take the doc more than 20 minutes to complete the repair of a couple tears, inspect the joint for arthritis and ‘debris’, clean up the work, put a single stitch in each incision and call it done. It’s not really assembly-line or ‘drive-through’ medicine, it’s just good business.
The pity is that this guy had such a poor patient pre-op experience and his post-op is likely to be equally poor because he has so little idea of what to expect, how to care for his knees, when to begin physical exercise and therapy, etc., etc. His surgery may indeed have been quite skilled, but his prospects for a good outcome seem shaky.
Many highly excellent surgeons work in this way.
It’s the modern world, to get the top guy at a price you can afford. He does the surgery in 30 minutes, but his assistants do all the other work.
My knee surgeon told me he did 4 operations per morning on Mondays and Wednesdays. He was really into it, wanted me to watch on the monitor. He went so fast I couldn’t tell what he was doing, but it was obvious that he was very experienced.