Most people will experience back pain at some point, but up to 90 percent will heal on their own within weeks. The reality is that time often is the best antidote. Charles Rosen, a spine surgeon at the University of California, Irvine. “The way medicine is so Star-Treky these days, they believe something can be done,” said Dr. Back pain is notoriously complicated, and surgeries are on the rise despite little evidence that they’re necessary or effective. In the second piece, she takes on one of the most notorious sectors of overtreatment: back surgery.
She looks at every stage of life, from cesarean births to unnecessary and painful cardiac tests performed on dying patients. In the first installment, she focuses on the medical consequences of overtreatment, which include radiation exposure and complications.
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