Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo
A Surgeon Cuts Through the Evidence
$26.87
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2016
Summary
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, practising orthopaedic surgeon who performs many of these operations himself, makes the unsettling argument particularly compelling.
Of course no surgeon is recommending invasive surgery in …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742234571 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1742234577 |
| Author: | Ian Harris |
| Publisher: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Imprint: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2016 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 134mm x 208mm |
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Ian Harris
Professor Ian Harris AM is a senior orthopaedic surgeon who works at Liverpool, St George, St George Private and Sutherland Hospitals in Sydney. His academic affiliation is with UNSW, South Western Sydney Clinical School at Liverpool Hospital, in Sydney, Austrailia. He has a PhD from the University of Sydney on surgical outcomes. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals.
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