Gawande: Spinal surgery for pain provides no average benefit at nine months
Dr. Atul Gawande · #42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress · Oct 2, 2018 · at 1:02:08
Dr. Atul Gawande explains how clinical evidence reveals that certain surgical interventions fail to produce lasting benefits for patients.
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“In, ah, back surgery, we have a bunch of studies showing that when you do back surgery for pain, spinal, spinal surgery for pain as opposed for, as opposed to for neurological symptoms where you have actual nerve damage. But when it's for pain, the average people have no no benefit for disability or pain at about, ah, nine months or so.”
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