Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo

A Surgeon Cuts through the Evidence

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Patient Care, Physician & Patient, Surgery
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Author: Ian Harris ISBN: 9781742242309
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press Publication: June 10, 2016
Imprint: New South Language: English
Author: Ian Harris
ISBN: 9781742242309
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Publication: June 10, 2016
Imprint: New South
Language: English

For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. That these claims come from an experienced, practicing orthopedic surgeon who performs many of these operations himself, makes the unsettling argument particularly compelling. Of course no surgeon is recommending invasive surgery in bad faith, but Ian Harris argues that the evidence for the success for many common operations, including knee arthroscopies, back fusion or cardiac stenting, become current accepted practice without full examination of the evidence.

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For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. That these claims come from an experienced, practicing orthopedic surgeon who performs many of these operations himself, makes the unsettling argument particularly compelling. Of course no surgeon is recommending invasive surgery in bad faith, but Ian Harris argues that the evidence for the success for many common operations, including knee arthroscopies, back fusion or cardiac stenting, become current accepted practice without full examination of the evidence.

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