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Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo: A Surgeon Cuts through the Evidence

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Is surgery always the best option? A surgeon cuts through the evidence. 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. Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo makes a compelling argument from an experienced, practicing orthopedic surgeon who performs many of these operations himself. Ian Harris a...