When Doctors Bully…

As an intern, I was assigned a rotation, where I prepared patients for surgery. During this prep process, I asked patients an unexpected but critically important question: “Do you want to have surgery?” As it turned out, most of them didn’t want surgery. But they didn’t know they had a choice. Surgery is usually presented as your only option. But, in fact, it’s just one of many choices available. The problem is that most specialists and surgeons won’t tell you that – because it’s bad for business. Thankfully, today we have a superior procedure for “informed consent.” But it’s intended to satisfy the lawyers, not the patient. Surgeons still try to bully people. Consider these shocking facts culled from several recent analyses of surgical statistics: 1,2,3,4,5,6 70% percent of hysterectomies were prescribed incorrectly; 22.5% of pacemakers were inserted without good reason; 17% of spinal-fusion back surgeries were performed without medical scans or neurological tests to support the procedures; 12% of angioplasties with stents were unwarranted; Arthritic knees rarely perform better after arthroscopic surgery to repair the joint’s buffer cartilage. Three Pennsylvania surgeons attempted to remove gall bladders from three different patients who had already had the bladder removed! Raw greed can lead to sham surgeries. So can stupidity and incompetence. But most unnecessary procedures can be blamed on...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Anti-Aging Surgery Source Type: news