"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Arthroscopic Artifice: Arthroscopic placebo surgery for arthritic knee pain is just as good as the real thing. I’ve actually heard orthopedic surgeons say they didn’t think arthroscopic surgery did much for arthritis pain. In fact, the orthopods I refer to don’t routinely do it for arthritis. That’s not to say it isn’t done. There are other orthopedists in our community who do arthroscopes for arthritis, or “scoping for dollars” as a resident I once knew used to call it. posted by Sydney on
7/11/2002 06:24:00 AM
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