Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo: A Surgeon Cuts Through the Evidence

by Ian Harris

For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. That these claims come from an experienced, practicing orthopedic surgeon who performs many of these operations himself, makes the unsettling argument particularly compelling. Of course no surgeon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742234577
• ISBN13: 9781742234571
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: NewSouth Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.2"