5 OPERATIONS YOU DON'T WANT TO GET -- AND WHAT TO DO INSTEAD
Maybe I'm the wrong ex-patient to be telling you this: Experimental surgery erased Stage III colon cancer from my shell-shocked body six years ago. But even I've got to admit that all is not well in America's operating rooms: At least 12,000 Americans die each year from unnecessary surgery, according to a Journal of the American Medical Association report. And tens of thousands more suffer complications.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/07/27/healt...gery/index.html