PUT THAT KNIFE AWAY, DOC!
If you are interested in health, or if you or your near ones are potential surgical candidates, I strongly urge you to spend five minutes reading this article.
This article talks about avoiding surgery, when other, less invasive options, exist. I have previously mentioned how surgeries for weight loss, back pain and for suspected appendicitis are tilted in favor of the knife-wielder. Surgery has a great role to play in many of the cited instances, but the option should only be exercised as the best option, not the first option. As David Dent, a learned South African academic surgeon, once said, "The patient comes to the surgeon for an opinion, not for an operation".
Alas, most of us (surgeons) don't realise this!
14 comments:
Ram...I appreciate ur ethics..wish we had more of such professionals.
Our mistakes are hanged a few inches above the ground while urs wld be buried a few feet below the ground ;)
Sree, I agree with you.You are absolutely right @ramadoc.
Thanks, ladies! If people put their money on my ethics rather than on my surgeries, I would be a very rich man today! ;-)
aaah..that was a good one :)
but I am sure even with ur ethics intact u r not exactly an impoverished man ;)
Oh, BTW, how come you guys aren't wowing about the great art pictures gracing this blog these days?
oh...I did notice this one..I thgt the less said the better !
So my art has left someone speechless! ;-)
dumbstruck would be more like it :P
Eating a lotta fish, Sree? You're getting cleverer, and it feels wonderful to know that I am not the only smartass in here! ;-)
My respect for you, which was already quite high, just sored out of sight. I have heard recently about many, too many, unnecessary surgeries being performed. It'd nice to hear from a surgeon that many surgeries are noit necessary.
Put the knife away, but keep going with the paintbrush, doc! :-)
MMP,
Thanks for your comment!
Mahendra,
You asked for it!
:-)
Hmm... may be all Surgeon should start their day with this slogan "The patient comes to the surgeon for an opinion, not for an operation"
a good post!
Tankyou, Thir-a-mis-u!
:-)
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