 The more you learn about spinal surgery, the more frightening it
becomes. I've never met a person with lower back pain who was actually
helped by surgery. Perhaps they do exist, but I've met one. Most people
end up for the worse, and with a big medical bill to boot. This article
reveals how a woman who underwent spinal surgery at the University of
Wisconsin hospital was reportedly seriously harmed by the surgeons who
used surgical tool to "grind at blood vessels" that were never supposed
to be touched. The patient bled profusely and would have died, the
article reports, if a vascular surgeon hadn't been down the hall.
It's scary stuff, and yet this sort of incident occurs far more
frequently than we dare believe. Surgery isn't an exact science at all,
and even when it goes as planned, there's no guarantee that surgery will
accomplish the desired result. In fact -- and this is shocking
information to most people -- surgical procedures do not have to be
proven effective in any way whatsoever for them to be widely adopted and
used on patients. There's absolutely no burden of proof of efficacy when
it comes to surgeries. That's just one of the many reasons why such a
huge number of unnecessary surgeries have been performed over the years
and are still be conducted today. Remember hysterectomies, anyone? Today
they're considered largely unnecessary. How about surgeries that remove
the tonsils? Widely and "wildly" conducted throughout the 60's, 70's and
80's, the procedure is now considered a waste of time. The list goes on
and on. In many cases, surgery is simply bad medicine, and it does
nothing to improve the life or health of the patient. The obvious
exception is, of course, surgery conducted following a traumatic injury
such as a car crash. Those surgeries are well justified and nobody's
better than U.S. critical care doctors when it comes to keeping patients
alive after a gunshot wound, for example.
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