Daily Archives Friday, May 2006

Unnecessary Surgery and Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater

Here’s another reference from BusinessWeek today, “Bypass that Operation”, on the same vein about doctors who don’t know what they are doing, including performing unnecessary surgery.   It suggests that many if not most of 400,000 bypass surgeries and 1 million angioplasties are unnecessary. 
While I find fault with the general tone of this article, glorifying Dr. [...]

“Medical Guesswork” Exposing the Ugly Truth

I have always had a rather sanguine understanding of medicine, having been sensitized to its practical limitations for most of my life. Having been the son of a general surgeon and the nephew of a pediatrician, I saw many aspects of medicine that have tempered my thinking about treatment alternatives in the medical device industry. [...]