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I wish I could address everything that's wrong with this comment. The biggest thing is you seem extremely willing to take risks without understanding the gravi
by SkyPuncher 7y ago
I wish I could address everything that's wrong with this comment.
The biggest thing is you seem extremely willing to take risks without understanding the gravity of what you're doing. Sure, you CAN give yourself PRP injections and LIKELY will have little to no side effects. Healthcare providers need extreme confidence that (a) a procedure will be effective (b) the risks are appropriate.
- reubens 7y agoI disagree. Some doctors will attempt new procedures with only a company promoting new tools. I once saw a surgeon try out new combined cut & staple hardware designed for bowel surgery on a patient's liver, because he had been told it would work. It didn't, and there was a ridiculous amount of staples in the patient's abdomen afterward. Doctors often become more risk prone the more power they have, and the hierarchy of human medical doctoring contributes to this.
- alexanderdmitri 7y agosailor: captain! there's a hole in the ship, if we don't do something quick we'll sink! captain: there's only one solution ... make the hole so big we can no longer call it a hole. sailor: aye aye captain, i'll go get the explosives.
- jl2718 7y agoPRP was a pretty extreme example, but I used it to prove a point that no matter how crazy it seems to do PRP in an underground or gray-market venue, 1. A lot of people are already doing it, and 2. absent blood contamination risk, the risk, benefit, and cost trade-off is still massively better than the surgery it may prevent. It’s not even close. Even if it’s not proven to be effective by statistical scrutiny, neither are the vast majority of orthopedic surgeries. Seriously, look it up, and be mindful that it is the surgeon himself that determines success in most studies.