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I would love to see how someone gets 70% kidney or joint transplant. Like they put the stuff but don't sew you? Or you forfeit the anesthesia? Or if you have in

I would love to see how someone gets 70% kidney or joint transplant. Like they put the stuff but don't sew you? Or you forfeit the anesthesia? Or if you have infection they give you antibiotics only 7 of the 10 days needed? They remove the bone cask a week before it is fully healed? Remove only 70% of tumor during surgery?

yummyfajitas 13y ago
The fact that you can ridiculously misinterpret the two most important studies in a field does not make them invalid.
- venomsnake 13y ago
  No but it makes case about the fact that we are currently overtreating people in some cases. With defensive medicine and the fact that there is growing body of evidence that aggressive screening for cancer in a lot of cases does little good there is good chunk we could eliminate. By my friend that is on dialysis cannot use it 30% less in the long term without endangering her life or degrading her quality of life to the point of not worth living. Fracture a bone - you can go without professional help - risking all kinds of nasty stuff that will get you into ER or limping for the rest of your life. You can ignore the dermatitis but if a mole starts bleeding you MUST go to the dermatologist to check yourself for skin cancer. 30 percent less of the later checkups and you have a few corpses on your hand.
msandford 13y ago
The major medical problems that you "don't have a choice" but to get are not 100% of all medical problems that can exist. There are only so many organs available for transplant every year (thousands yes, but no millions) but seeing the doctor for the sniffles is bounded only by the number of people in the US, 300 million. There's a difference between something that will kill you in short order (like a horrible car accident where you're bleeding out) where you take whatever medical care you can get at any price, and the more mundane, routine stuff like ACL surgery where you can afford the time to shop around or perhaps even forego it entirely.

yummyfajitas 13y ago

The fact that you can ridiculously misinterpret the two most important studies in a field does not make them invalid.

venomsnake 13y ago
No but it makes case about the fact that we are currently overtreating people in some cases. With defensive medicine and the fact that there is growing body of evidence that aggressive screening for cancer in a lot of cases does little good there is good chunk we could eliminate. By my friend that is on dialysis cannot use it 30% less in the long term without endangering her life or degrading her quality of life to the point of not worth living. Fracture a bone - you can go without professional help - risking all kinds of nasty stuff that will get you into ER or limping for the rest of your life. You can ignore the dermatitis but if a mole starts bleeding you MUST go to the dermatologist to check yourself for skin cancer. 30 percent less of the later checkups and you have a few corpses on your hand.

msandford 13y ago

The major medical problems that you "don't have a choice" but to get are not 100% of all medical problems that can exist. There are only so many organs available for transplant every year (thousands yes, but no millions) but seeing the doctor for the sniffles is bounded only by the number of people in the US, 300 million. There's a difference between something that will kill you in short order (like a horrible car accident where you're bleeding out) where you take whatever medical care you can get at any price, and the more mundane, routine stuff like ACL surgery where you can afford the time to shop around or perhaps even forego it entirely.