Sentences with phrase «of unnecessary surgeries»

During the course of her career, she has successfully represented children who have suffered brain damage from obstetrical malpractice, and patients who have been injured due to other forms of hospital, physician and nursing errors, including the failure to timely diagnose breast, prostate colon, and bone cancer (Ewing's Sarcoma), the performance of unnecessary surgeries, and surgical mistakes.

During the course of his career, Mr. Rodriguez has successfully represented children who have suffered brain damage from obstetrical malpractice and blindness from neonatal malpractice, and patients who have been injured due to other forms of hospital, physician and nursing errors, including the failure to timely diagnose breast, prostate, rectal, colon, and lung cancer, the performance of unnecessary surgeries, and surgical mistakes.

Many mothers would not have been the victim of an unnecessary surgery, their babies separated from them, medications pushed on them because their bodies were on a time clock, their patient rights stripped away / ignored / refused, etc. had they not put their faith in the system that is sold as the best and safest.

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Into this category fall things like unnecessary tests, higher - than - needed levels of care or surgeries that have proven ineffective.

Identifying more accurately low risk pre-cancerous lesions avoids unnecessary surgeries and allows clinicians to monitor patients regularly for peace of mind.

He underwent four surgeries in the spring and summer, but remarkably Dr. Richard Steadman found it unnecessary to do a full reconstruction of the ACL and instead performed a «healing response,» creating fractures where the ligament normally attaches to the bone.

The child can not give any consent for either the unnecessary surgery or the exploitation of the amputated body part.

I already think that the measures they force us to take in the hospital lead to more unsuccessful VBACs than increased safety of mama and baby, but to take away the choice of women, to force them to have a major and potentially unnecessary surgery is infuriating and disheartening.

Pregnant women and parents alike are looking for alternative ways to improve the health of their unborn child and / or children without resorting to unnecessary drugs or surgery.

I also know one of her clients, who was spared 3 unnecessary surgeries because of this amazing woman.

You can have all sorts of strictly unnecessary surgeries, but a woman can't choose to have her child delivered by CS in this day and age?

Sometimes with just a few more minutes of pushing, a whole unnecessary surgery could be avoided.

Headlines and government agencies should be asking why obstetricians are performing unnecessary surgery on healthy pregnant women for no medical reason, rather than promoting the fiction of increasing rates of «maternal request» cesareans.

I didn't trust hospitals and knew I wanted my baby to be born in a safe environment where the baby would remain with me and not be separated after birth, and where I wasn't at risk of having unnecessary surgery.

Into this category fall things like unnecessary tests, higher - than - needed levels of care or surgeries that have proven ineffective.

That means that roughly 36 of the 190 women who received annual mammography for 10 years and were diagnosed with breast cancer would receive unnecessary surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

This can help healthcare providers determine the risk of strokes and heart attacks — which means avoiding unnecessary surgery for many patients.

According to the authors, in fiscal year (FY) 2011 - 2012, the 18 residents in the Department of Neurological Surgery identified five diagnostic laboratory tests that they deemed usually unnecessary.

Because ovarian cancer is relatively rare, occurring in approximately one out of every 2,500 women, a test with only 99 percent specificity would result in false - positive diagnoses for 25 women, leading to unnecessary and risky surgeries and procedures.

Patients go through extensive follow - up medical visits, invasive biopsies and sometimes unnecessary surgery to determine the true nature of their pancreatic cyst.

The benefits of the current, painful test are controversial as it frequently produces inaccurate results that prompt men to have unnecessary surgery, putting them at - risk of urinary incontinence or erectile dysfunction.

«This work highlights an example of using cutting - edge machine learning technology to avoid unnecessary surgery,» says Marc Kohli, director of clinical informatics in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California at San Francisco.

Plus, this is often considered one of the most over-performed, unnecessary surgeries — including its use for endometriosis.

If circumcision were a new procedure being proposed today for any of the above conditions, it would not be acceptable based on insufficient medical evidence and / or medical ethics (it is against medical ethics to perform unnecessary surgery).

Research shows the test doesn't reduce rates of death from ovarian cancer and can result in unnecessary and sometimes dangerous procedures, including surgery.

I was purging my house, feeling so good about getting rid of the clutter and unnecessary things in my home, and came about a bottle of MoM that my husband needed to use after a surgery.

It's time to replace it with a more holistic view of health, and to empower people to prevent and treat disease without unnecessary drugs or surgery.

In some cases, losing weight and adopting a healthier lifestyle will greatly reduce the appearance of the fatty tissues and will make surgery unnecessary.

However, in the long run, Dr. Hyman believes you will save thousands, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars by avoiding costly chronic diseases, expensive yet unnecessary surgeries, powerful pharmaceutical medications with dangerous and unknown side effects, lost work days, injuries and more.

According to research, the grand total of arthritis mistreatment by physicians is 30,000 yearly deaths and 10 billion dollars in wasted money — all because of unnecessary tests and surgery.

There are countless examples of «expert physicians» who have given extremely bad recommendations over the years — from insistence in the 1950s - 60s that cigarette smoking is not harmful, to cardiologists in the 1970s recommending potent (and toxic) anti-arrhythmic drugs for the treatment of benign PVCs — until randomized controlled trials documented increased mortality in the treatment group, to numerous unnecessary surgeries that used to be commonplace (such as tonsillectomies, elective C - sections, spinal fusion for back pain, etc., etc..

«The task force found that screening women without signs or symptoms for ovarian cancer does not decrease the number of deaths from the disease, and may lead to unnecessary surgeries,» Dr. Maureen Phipps said in a news release from the USPSTF.

Community cats may interact with a variety of caregivers, veterinarians, and animal control personnel during their lives and so immediate visual identification is necessary to prevent an unnecessary second trapping and surgery.

Opponents of declawing generally believe that the surgery causes unnecessary pain and irreversible trauma that leads to behavioral issues.

This prevents the trauma (an expense) of re-trapping and unnecessary surgery.

To assist our region in preventing the unnecessary euthanasia of healthy animals, HART offers low - cost services to pet owners who can not afford the cost of the surgeries.

Surgeries performed without appropriate training could result in unnecessary pain, distress, or injury of animals.»

Ear - tipping prevents an already - spayed or neutered cat the stress of re-trapping and an unnecessary surgery.

Ear - tipping is especially important as it prevents an already spayed or neutered cat the stress of re-trapping and more importantly, an unnecessary surgery.

Simply put, ear tipping protects your cats from the unnecessary stress of repeated trappings, trips to the clinic, and surgery to confirm that they have already been altered.

Quickly identify if an animal has been spay / neutered and avoid unnecessary surgery of the abdomen.

Although one would hope that the preceding example was an unusual occurrence, there are many unnecessary stomach surgeries (which have a very low success rate).1, 2 These surgeries are the result of veterinarians who are unfamiliar with rabbit x-rays and the fact that most rabbits have some hair constantly present in their stomachs.

Pro-declawing veterinarians are running out of excuses to keep on performing this damaging, unnecessary, multi-amputation surgery on cats.

With a little effort, patience, and time, one or more of these alternatives will work for any cat; making it unnecessary and inhumane to use a radical, irreversible surgery to solve a behavior problem.

Feral cats may interact with a variety of caregivers, veterinarians, and animal control personnel during their lives so immediate visual identification is necessary to prevent an unnecessary second trapping and surgery.

A team of vigilantes led by neurosurgeon & black belt Dr. Karate perform unnecessary surgery on the crimelords of a lawless city.

$ 2.5 million verdict for the family of a 31 - year - old woman who died after her doctors performed an unnecessary high risk surgery

In one representative case, he achieved a $ 1.8 million jury verdict for the victim of unnecessary brain surgery, whose life altering injury was caused by mixed - up CT scan results.

Examples of medical malpractice include improper prescriptions, unnecessary surgery, and missed or incorrect diagnoses.

Jurors in an Indiana medical malpractice lawsuit ruled against a now - deceased physician accused of performing an allegedly unnecessary surgery on a 16 - year - old athlete.