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Follow on Google News | Special Report: Questionable Care: Who Is Responsible?The most trust one can have been given is to a health provider.
By: 360 Organization A doctor in Michigan was last week fined US$775,000 for ordering surgeries that were unnecessary. In one case, he removed a woman's uterus, cervix, and both ovaries because of a threat of cancer, even though no cancer was present. He is hardly alone in his malpractice. Even in 2020, when many hospitals were refusing non-urgent surgeries, more than 100,000 unnecessary, and potentially harmful procedures were performed on older patients in the USA, according to anaylsis from health think-tank the Lown Institute. "You couldn't go into your local coffee shop, but hospitals brought people in for all kinds of unnecessary procedures," From spinal fusion, to heart stents, knee arthroscopes, to root canal work, surgery with questionable benefits is routinely performed all around the world. Surgery of any kind carries risk. As American clinicians, Stahel, Vanderheiden and Kim noted in 2017, "it is significantly safer to board a commercial airplane, a spacecraft, or a nuclear submarine, than to be admitted to a US hospital". Every year, more than 1 million patients die during or immediately after surgery. But doctors and patients alike usually believe they are acting in the best interest of the patient. Social, and cultural pressures come to bear on decisions; doctors are only human after all. Their pre-existing biases may push them into surgery where it is not strictly necessary. So while clinicians call for more patient education and shared decision making, social scientists are examining the context of the decision making, showing that people — doctors, patients, and their carers — are more than a collection of body parts More than 100,000 unnecessary, and potentially harmful procedures were performed on older patients in the USA between March, and December 2020, according to the Lown Institute. Medical errors are the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States. As far back as 1976, the American Medical Association called for a congressional hearing on unnecessary surgery, claiming that there were "2.4 million unnecessary operations performed on Americans at a cost of $3.9 billion, and that 11,900 patients had died from unneeded operations" Unsafe surgery causes complications in up to 25 percent of patients. Almost 7 million surgical patients suffer significant complications annually, 1 million of whom die during or immediately following surgery. http://youtu.be/ End
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