Well-informed patients help alleviate unnecessary surgeries
Not all surgeries are necessary but for some reason surgical procedures are constantly performed on seemingly healthy patients. This over-abundance of surgery when other non-surgical options are available may be doing more harm than good. The failure of doctors to tell patients about all available treatment options may, in fact, be surgeon error.This issue recently came to the forefront after news broke of a British doctors who performed over 1,000 surgeries on apparently healthy women.