Posted 7/2/14 on Cracking Health Costs
A Reuters report by Will Boggs had the headline above. (Parentheses are mine.) By today’s surgery standards this should come as a surprise to no one.
“Judging by the symptoms of people with knee arthritis, one-third of knee replacement surgeries may be inappropriate, according to a new study.” The lead author of that study, Daniel L. Riddle from Virginia Commonwealth University, said ‘ “We found that some patients undergo total knee replacement when they have very low grade symptoms or minor knee arthritis…” ‘
That is the point I’ve been making all along. The ethics around surgery in the US are declining rapidly. EdisonHealth surgeons at places like Mercy in Springfield, MO, and Virginia Mason, don’t do unnecessary and potentially harmful knee surgery.
It’s time for HR and benefit mangers to wake up. Bad surgeons will get worse and worse until you take their patients away.
“Judging by the symptoms of people with knee arthritis, one-third of knee replacement surgeries may be inappropriate, according to a new study.” The lead author of that study, Daniel L. Riddle from Virginia Commonwealth University, said ‘ “We found that some patients undergo total knee replacement when they have very low grade symptoms or minor knee arthritis…” ‘
That is the point I’ve been making all along. The ethics around surgery in the US are declining rapidly. EdisonHealth surgeons at places like Mercy in Springfield, MO, and Virginia Mason, don’t do unnecessary and potentially harmful knee surgery.
It’s time for HR and benefit mangers to wake up. Bad surgeons will get worse and worse until you take their patients away.
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