I have a few things to say about the big game in hospitals. Many corporate hospitals, "FIVE STAR", as they call them, have huge costs and cope with this, each month they give a goal to doctors. They also get paid for the number of operations they perform. It begins with recognizing potential patients and convincing them. Some patients agree, and some go to a second opinion, which I think is the best option.
This growing practice among surgeons performing operations, even without the most powerful surgical indications, to get the patient to go through such a painful and expensive process.
This is a well-known fact or, as you would say, an “open secret” that doctors working in high-end corporate hospitals are under pressure from management to perform their monthly or annual indicators of the number of operations or the adoption of a certain number of implants Egyptian stents.
Common operations that are often not needed
Stents - It increases the blood supply to the heart muscle, widening the narrowed coronary arteries. 8 out of 10 patients who undergo this procedure are unsuitable patients who would be best served by more conservative therapy.
Pacemakers - This device uses low-energy electrical impulses to make the heart beat at a normal rate. Studies show that more than 22% of these implants may be unnecessary.
Back Surgery - A process called lumbar diskectomy, which is often done on patients with sciatica, is more effective in relieving pain than non-invasive treatment. The best success rate for spinal mergers is only 25 percent. Complex monthly mergers provide little benefit compared to simple decompression, but the cost is more than three times as large and has increased fifteen times in five years.
hysterectomy - The process of removal of the uterus due to lack of a sufficient diagnosis, as well as due to the impossibility of alternative treatment before surgery. Sometimes the ovaries are also removed during this procedure as a precautionary measure and are performed without consent.
Knee replacement - The procedure for replacing the bearing surfaces of the knee joint. The study showed that 48% who were asked to undergo a complete knee replacement did not need to undergo an operation.
Cesarean section - A caesarean section is the most frequently performed surgical procedure. But studies show that there is a rapid increase in cesarean section even among low-risk pregnancies. According to WHO, no country has an excuse for having a cesarean section of more than 10-15 percent.
Personal experience:
I personally also had to stop this cruel practice not so long ago. A close friend of mine who lives abroad developed a perianal abscess. The operation was carried out in a government hospital, and the surgeon’s surgery did not even go for an examination and completely forgot to do normal management. In this case, you need to take a purulent culture and prescribe an antibiotic.
After a couple of days, he tore the pus from the wound. His family had enough treatment by hand, so they flew to India. Then they consulted a surgeon from a famous hospital. Now this doctor, without a second thought, confirmed that my friend needs another operation to drain the pus. My friend did not want to go through the whole painful process again, so I decided to adopt a second and third opinion. Now both other surgeons strongly disagree with the operation, soon after the first one, they said that my friend was already developing an abscess complication, fistula. In the case of fistulas, the best approach is to wait for its epithelialization, and then fistultomy, which again depends on several factors.
This is your body: take control of your health
I'm afraid to think that my friend will have to go through if he listened to the first surgeon! This is the state of the doctors today! Where is the sincerity in the patient's assessment? Do they even think for a minute about the unnecessary pain and mental stress of a person under these unwanted operations? As a person, if I'm so skeptical, I can't help but worry for everyone who trusts these "guards of health and well-being."
There must be a strict policy to keep checking on this. It is necessary to introduce transparency and accountability in medical practice, a policy for hospitals in order to announce the maximum retail price on each device. Regardless of the percentage of doctors involved in unethical practices, an impartial monitoring system is needed.
