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The Miracle of MSM: The Natural Solution for Pain Stanley W. Jacob, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

The findings of the MRIs are often misleading and lead to "unnecessary surgery and the results are not very good," Froymeyer said. Anorher experr, Robert Boyd, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said, "Surgery doesn't put new backs in and it doesn't give better long-term results. It is indicated when pain doesn't respond to conservative treatment and is clearly associated with nerve root compression. Then the resulrs of surgery are excellent." But only a small percentage of people with back pain fall into this category, according to Boyd.

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Side effects of medications kill more people annually than automobile accidents. unnecessary surgery (heart disease and other conditions) has significant mortality while it also drives up health care costs. This approach to health care also takes the power and responsibility for your health out of your control. Your Personal Power for Health The intensity of debate in government circles that revolves around solving the "health care crisis" is misguided, misinformed, and misnamed.

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And he adds, "Insurance companies are easy in payment with this because they want to be sure there's no unnecessary surgery, either."44 Bringing us to the next point. Unneeded Surgery Not all surgery is really called for. Sometimes, in the rush to avoid lawsuits, doctors and surgeons will commit patients to surgery "just to be on the safe side" (though they won't admit this to the patient in most instances).

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Orthopedic doctors, who specialize in injuries related to the muscles, joints, bones, tendons, and ligaments, are often inexperienced with conservative methods of treatment and are sometimes too willing to engage in unnecessary surgery. The problem is that surgery has limited long-range benefits and is completely unnecessary for many lower back pain sufferers. When confronted with pain caused by a factor that does not show up on an X ray, an orthopedist will generally refer the patient to another professional.

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She was quite relieved; her delaying tactics had paid off, and she'd avoided an unnecessary surgery. We were then able to relieve her menopausal symptoms by using topical progesterone cream, which unlike estrogen doesn't stimulate the fibroids. Today, greater awareness about the role of the female reproductive system in maintaining wellness in women is changing attitudes in the medical community.

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It appears that the unnecessary surgery of the past, the tonsillectomy, has been replaced by this new procedure. In fact there is a direct correlation between the decline of the tonsillectomy and the rise of the myringotomy. Over 2 million myringotomy tubes are inserted into children's ears each year, along with 600,000 tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies. These surgeries are unnecessary for most children. A 1994 evaluation of the appropriateness of myringotomy tubes in children under 16 years of age in the United States found that only 42% were judged as being appropriate.

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She also found that patients play a part in unnecessary surgery. When they voiced objections to a hysterectomy for such conditions as painful fibroids, doctors tended to change their opinion that the operation was necessary. The study of Maine women did show that "appropriate" hysterectomies were effective in relieving the common symptoms of fibroid tumors of the uterus (Heomyomas that are noncancerous and can be as large as a grapefruit), abnormal bleeding, and chronic pelvic pain.

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Coronary artery bypass surgery is _ called an "overprescribed and unnecessary surgery" by many leading authorities.4 Some physicians choose to reduce a patient's risk factors for heart disease by considering preventive measures such as stress reduction, exercise, dietary improvement, weight control, and the elimination of smoking. "Although these methods have resulted in some leveling off of the rate of heart disease," says Garry F. Gordon, M.D.

The Miracle of MSM: The Natural Solution for Pain Stanley W. Jacob, M.D., Ronald M. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

The findings of the MRIs are often misleading and lead to "unnecessary surgery and the results are not very good," Froymeyer said. Another expert, Robert Boyd, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said, "Surgery doesn't put new backs in and it doesn't give better long-term results. It is indicated when pain doesn't respond to conservative treatment and is clearly associated with nerve root compression. Then the results of surgery are excellenr." But only a small percentage of people with back pain fall into this category, according to Boyd.

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News and World Report, "You'd be shocked, I think—we are—at the amount of unnecessary surgery that is performed." The reason, according to Hawley? "Money."26 "In the United States today," Moss wrote in The Cancer Industry, "the direction of cancer management appears to be shaped by those forces financially interested in the outcome of the problem. Distinct circles of power have formed, which, while differing among themselves on many issues, are sufficiently cohesive and interlocking to form a cancer establishment.

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It appears that the unnecessary surgery of the past, the tonsillectomy, has been replaced by this new procedure. In fact, there is a direct correlation between the decline of the tonsillectomy and the rise of the myringotomy. Over two million myringotomy tubes are inserted into children's ears each year, along with six hundred thousand tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies. Are these surgeries necessary? Are they effective? Is current standard medical treatment successful? The answer to all of these questions is a resounding "no" for most kids.

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The low rate of unnecessary surgery, they concluded, was greatly achieved by the oversight and feedback of the Cardiac Advisory Committee and the Department of Health of New York State, which played a major role in improving the situation. Solutions io I lie Surgical Crisis Overall, how many patients undergo unnecessary operations each year in all forms of surgery? No one really knows, but it is surely more than a million, perhaps several million. What can stem the tide? Consider the following solutions: ISome way should be found to reduce the surgeon's .

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Also, the risks of false positives and unnecessary surgery have to be taken into account. P. Skrabanek, "Mass Mammography: The Time for Reappraisal," International Journal of Technological Assessment Health Care 5, no. 3 (1989): 423-30. U.S. breast cancer detection study results: Ten-year survival rates were not significantly higher when mammograms detected tumors rather than when physical examinations or a combination of mammograms and physical exams detected the tumors. I. Mittra, "Breast Screening: The Case for Physical Examination without Mammography," Lancet 343 (February 5, 1994): 342.

Also, the risks of false positives and unnecessary surgery have to be taken into account. P. Skrabanek. "Mass Mammography: The Time for Reappraisal," International Journal of Technological Assessment Health Care 5, no. 3 (1989): 423-30. U.S. breast cancer detection study results: Ten-year survival rates were not significantly higher when mammograms detected tumors rather than when physical examinations or a combination of mammograms and physical exams detected the tumors. I. Mittra, "Breast Screening: The Case for Physical Examination without Mammography," Lancet 343 (February 5, 1994): 342.

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That is a radical departure in professional tradition, but one that is necessary if we are to drastically cut down the scourge of unnecessary surgery. Rather than wait for a complaint before checking the surgical activity of a doctor, hospitals should conduct routine audits of all surgeries done in their hospital. Afteward, they should announce to the staff which operations they believe were necessary and which were not. The peer pressure of such action will surely reduce the number of abusive operations that might only serve to make trie doctor richer.

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Coronary artery bypass surgery is called an "over-prescribed and unnecessary surgery" by many leading authorities.118 Complications from such treatments are common and the expense to the health-care system is extraordinarily high. For the most part, medicine is more equipped to treat heart disease only when it has reached its most serious and life-threatening stages. An announcement in 1993 by the Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company, one of the nation's largest insurers providing coverage for about ten million people, may help point the way for heart disease treatment in the future.

Equivocal mammogram results lead to unnecessary surgery, and the accuracy rate of mammograms is poor. According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), in women ages 40-49, there is a high rate of "missed tumors," resulting in 40% false-negative mammogram results. Breast tissue in younger women is denser, which makes it more difficult to detect tumors, and tumors grow more quickly in younger women, so cancer may develop between screenings.

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Women suffered from unnecessary surgery and suffocating attention from gynecologists. They, like the working class and racial minorities in general, were also excluded from becoming doctors. The fewer physicians competing for consumers' dollars, the higher physicians' incomes rose and the fewer doctors who practiced in working-class and poor sections of the cities and in the countryside. The middle class became the main source of income for the majority of the profession.

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