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. ...
You’re an eye specialist, and one of your patients reports that a lens in his eye - which you put in following a cataract operation - has been displaced after he was struck in the face. An outpatient procedure,
Recipients of donated eye tissues, such as those undergoing corneal transplant, may be at increased risk of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD (also called "mad cow disease"), suggests new evidence ...
THIS BURNING SENSATION IN YOUR STROMACH: Is it the surgeon’s cigarett
More people are having unnecessary gall bladder operations simply because surgeons find the new surgical techniques easier to perform. ...
