Questions tagged [surgery]
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Are female surgeons less likely to kill you?
A 2017 article in The Times has the following headline:
Female surgeons less likely to kill you, study finds
The article reports:
Patients operated on by a woman are less likely to die within a month than those who have the procedure under a male…
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Do surgeons refuse to operate "to keep their own statistics clean"?
I was curious about this thrice-upvoted comment, which says: Surgeons are also known for refusing to operate in order to maintain their ratios. So I Googled it and it seems surgeons can refuse to operate, but it's not immediately obvious they do so…
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Is or was the husband's knot/stitch a medical procedure?
The "husband's knot" or "husband's stitch" is supposedly a medical procedure that involves adding an extra suture when performing an episiotomy in order to make a woman's vagina tighter, resulting more pleasurable sexual intercourse for her husband…
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Did doctor/journalist Sanjay Gupta perform brain surgery on a wounded soldier in the heat of war?
According to this recap of an interview of Dr Sanjay Gupta on the Dr Oz Show, there was an incident while he was acting as a journalist in a war zone in Iraq:
While in Iraq, he encountered a soldier with a critical head wound. He
switched roles…
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Anaesthesia awareness: fact or myth?
It is usually phrased like a horror story: a patient feels like being trapped in a corpse, unable to move or scream and feeling intense pain, but surgeons continue to operate not noticing that patient is conscious.
It is reasonable to accept…
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Is Lasik corrective eye surgery unsafe?
I was looking into Lasik vision correction surgery and came across an article by a former member of the FDA, Dr. Morris Waxler where he states that he wishes he had never approved Lasik surgery:
But in the months and years after LASIK became…
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Do simple checklists applied in operating theatres significantly reduce the rates of complication and death from surgery?
Medical professionals are one of the most trusted groups in society. So we tend to trust them to do a good job without asking too many questions. So when a study showed that the simple application of surgical checklists could lead to a 36% reduction…
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Are women 32% more likely to die if operated on by a male surgeon?
An article in the Guardian reports this headline:
Women 32% more likely to die after operation by male surgeon, study reveals
The author of the original report also claims:
In our 1.3 million patient sample involving nearly 3,000 surgeons we…
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Do Zerona laser treatments have any effect on fat reduction?
Zerona is a laser based non-invasive procedure that claims to reduce fat in targeted areas. They also appear to be FDA approved. However, I have seen claims that the FDA approval is not based on any efficacy testing, merely safety.
In addition,…
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Is forced organ donation widespread in China? (强制摘取犯器官的行为已经实施了?)
On December 10, 2018, Sir Geoffrey Nice made the following statement:
The Tribunal’s members are all certain – unanimously, and sure beyond reasonable doubt – that in China forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience has been practised for…
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Is tennis elbow surgery considered successful in 80% to 90% of patients?
I have read on the USC Website that:
Tennis elbow surgery is considered successful in 80% to 90% of
patients.
It sounds to me like a high number, there is no reference and the page was written by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, who…
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Have surgical guidelines on the use of beta-blockers killed tens of thousands of people?
Medical guidelines designed to avoid damage to the heart during non-cardiac surgery in Europe recommend the use of beta-blockers. But the guidance was partially written by and largely based on work by the recently disgraced dutch researcher Don…
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