Is surgery necessary? A Mumbai- based medical second opinion - TopicsExpress



          

Is surgery necessary? A Mumbai- based medical second opinion services centre has found an uncomfortable answer to this question that traumatizes every family whose member has been advised surgery. Almost 44% of the 12,500 patients for whom surgery was recommended were advised against it by their second opinion consultants. Unnecessary surgery is not new in medicine. Orthopaedic surgeons in the United States were, four months ago, accused of overdoing total knee replacement surgeries by almost a third. Closer home, doctors in Andhra Pradesh rampantly performed hysterectomies in 2010 to get a higher payoff from government medical insurance schemes. MediAngels, a second opinion centre based out of Navi Mumbai, recently studied its first 20,000 consultations over the past two years and found several people were advised unnecessary surgeries by their primary doctors.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 03:01:16 +0000

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