Ray Williams is a 41-year-old triathlete who suffers from avascular necrosis, which means the bones in his hips are not receiving enough blood—and are literally dying. In this program, Dr. Urbaniak at Duke University Hospital performs a graft to restore blood flow to the patient’s hip bones. A Discovery Channel Production. (47 minutes)

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