Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo: A Surgeon Cuts through the Evidence

Is surgery always the best option? A surgeon cuts through the evidence. For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo makes a compelling argument from an experienced, practicing orthopedic surgeon who performs many of these operations himself. Ian Harris argues that the evidence for the success for many common operations, including knee arthroscopies, back fusion or cardiac stenting, become current accepted practice without full examination of the evidence.Discover the surgical antidote and learn about: The placebo effect in surgeryEvidence-based medicine and surgical outcomesMedical ethics and patient perceptionThis book is for patients, doctors, researchers, healthcare professionals, and anyone interested in evidence-based medicine and the effectiveness of surgical procedures. Read more