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Originally published January 24 2004

Surgery isn't as exact a science as you might hope... and much of it is entirely unnecessary

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

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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