Why do surgeons continue to perform unnecessary surgery?

Overview of attention for article published in Patient Safety in Surgery, January 2017

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RT @Mangan150: Why do surgeons continue to perform unnecessary surgery? - because they can, and it's lucrative https://t.co/KMoHGO7ks7

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Strikingly, in the 21st century, we still have to come to terms with the absurd reality that it is significantly safer to board a commercial airplane, a spacecraft, or a nuclear submarine, than to be admitted to a U.S. hospital [9–14] https://t.co/s36pqH3v

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