Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo: A Surgeon Cuts Through The Evidence
by Ian Harris /
2016 / English / PDF, EPUB
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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.
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.