What Doctors Don't Tell YouIn 18 November 1993 my wife had a routine gallbladder keyhole operation, which appeared to be successful. Two days later, she was given a bed pan and she thought that she was urinating. To her ...
Medicine is more often a belief system than a science, and doctors invariably cling to practices they know and love, irrespective of the data. Take, for instance, the pulmonary-artery catheter, which doctors cling to as a baby would to his dummy.
For the past decade, this woman has been suffering from scar tissue in the abdominal area. She has already had two surgeries to remove scar tissue, which, needless to say, have only caused further scar tissue.
Radical surgery to treat prostate cancer only succeeds in spreading the condition, new research has discovered. ...
Besides all the dangers only hinted at by the latest studies, perhaps the most potentially devastating is infection. The problem is that once an infection occurs during the surgery, the patient ma ...
Acute otitis media is a painful and nasty disease of the middle ear in children, which doctors usually treat with courses of antibiotics. Unfortunately, this often offers only a short-lived reprieve, if any, and the child may sometimes have to...
The conventional wisdom among ophthalmologists tells us that, if you live long enough, you will get cataracts. Eye doctors believe that this clouding of the lens is an inevitable part of ageing, and that surgical removal of the lens is the only...
Surgery for emphysema can be fatal, and can kill 18 per cent of patients at high risk, a study has concluded.
Men who’ve been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer are faced with a difficult choice: do you undergo radical surgery immediately, or do you wait until the symptoms worsen, a strategy known as watchful waiting? Doctors often fail to point out...
