Sentences with phrase «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.

There are many more unnecessary surgeries that can be avoided.

However, an estimated 7.5 million unnecessary surgeries and procedures are performed each year.

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.

Soon after he had the surgery, local news outlets began reporting on the fact that the cardiologist he had trusted was being investigated by state health officials for performing unnecessary surgeries.

There are in fact many unnecessary surgeries done every year and people die from them.

They need to be able to tell if an animal has already been altered, so that they don't trap cats and take them for unnecessary surgeries.

As a veterinarian too many times I have seen terrible illnesses, unnecessary surgeries and death due to chewing on rawhide.

Some breeders will get tail docking and ear cropping done at a vet, but more and more vets are refusing to do such unnecessary surgeries.

«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.

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..

I believe that vegetarians are more thoughtful and deliberately make causes for their health benefits and try to avoid ingesting chemicals and getting unnecessary surgeries.

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.

«I certainly could have avoided several unnecessary surgeries if I'd gone through the program earlier.

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

The gene test is being studied as an accurate, quantitative way to identify cysts that are more worrisome and to help patients avoid unnecessary surgeries for harmless cysts.

Model developed at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could reduce false positives and unnecessary surgeries.

Infections, unnecessary surgeries...

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?

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

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

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.

When this happens, a woman may end up with unnecessary surgery.

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.

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

Is anyone seriously suggesting that you can not go to an ophthalmologist for an eye exam because he or she will recommend unnecessary surgery?

Who would make charges against the doctors for doing unnecessary surgery?

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.

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.

«The molecular testing panel holds promise for streamlining and eliminating unnecessary surgery not just here but nationwide.»

Wrong or late diagnosis often even leads to unnecessary surgery and, ultimately, kidney failure.

The USPSTF found adequate evidence that the harms from screening for ovarian cancer are at least moderate and may be substantial in some cases, and include unnecessary surgery for women who do not have cancer.

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

Complications from pancreatic surgery are common and can be life threatening, so sparing a patient unnecessary surgery is important, Dr. Schmidt said.

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.

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).

It's proven to work for our athletes and is a great and easy alternative to avoiding unnecessary surgery.

In the past, thyroidectomy was performed after a fine needle aspiration (FNA) showed indeterminate or inconclusive nodules, but the relatively new Veracyte Afirma Thyroid Analysis process greatly reduces these indeterminate results and prevents unnecessary surgery.

His main focus is to give people the tools and knowledge that will enable them to change their body at the cellular level on their own, without having to resort to needless and often toxic pharmaceutical drugs or unnecessary surgery.

I have had Cane Corso's for almost 10 yrs The first one I got had her ears cropped I admit I like the look but I will not put a dog through an Unnecessary surgery just to get a look I have had 3 dogs with ears intake for 6 yrs and I haven't had ear infections I clean my dogs ears on a regular basis Gook in ears are diet related Usually related to grain found in crappy dog food Like corn & wheat And yes cropped ears need to be cleaned too Also dogs with cropped ears hate the rain as it Gets in their ears easily I do believe in tail cropping if it's done before day 3 These dogs never stop wagging their tails & it really hurts when they hit you There was a reason the Italians did tails & ears It was to protect the dogs from the wild boar they were hunting Today it purely «the Look»

The doctor would open the male dog up like a spay to look for those testicles, a painful and unnecessary surgery that could have been prevented with a permanent identifying mark.

The California Senate Public Safety Committee is considering Senate Bill 1441, which would prohibit this painful and unnecessary surgery.

Would you want your beloved pet subjected to unnecessary surgery if something unexpected happens in the future?

It is an unnecessary surgery that provides no medical benefit to the cat.

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

If your dog should ever become stray, a veterinarian or shelter staff will be able to tell that she is spayed, and prevent unnecessary surgery.