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That is a shocking thing to say. If they had followed the wait and see approach there's a good chance she might be blind right now. This high-handedness is why
by billiam 12y ago
That is a shocking thing to say. If they had followed the wait and see approach there's a good chance she might be blind right now. This high-handedness is why I have such a hard time with the medical profession.
- gwern 12y ago> If they had followed the wait and see approach there's a good chance she might be blind right now. Operating on a brain unnecessarily has its own risks.
- kbenson 12y agoIndeed, as someone who's had a close family member require brain surgery in the past, I would caution people against thinking of it like any other surgery. The equivalent of "a lingering stiffness" or "Skin tightening because of scar tissue" becomes something else entirely when talking about the brain, and by extension the mind.
- zo1 12y agoAnd you don't think it may have something to do with the amount of lawsuits that is open to them if they make a mistake? We can't claim that the thought/idea of a lawsuit over a medical mistake looming is always 0, because it isn't. Even on a sub-conscious level, it affects and weighs in on the medical practitioner's diagnoses.
- mcmancini 12y agoHospitals can be a pretty dangerous place. You're a braver person than I if you're willing to treat a likely benign and possibly asymptomatic meningioma without fully investigating the lesion, including rate of progression.