Re: Millions to be affected by NHS plan to ration 34 everyday tests and treatments
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Kidney stones would no longer be removed in an operating theatre and instead would be treated with sound wave therapy to reduce the pain.
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What’s wrong with that?
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It would also see patients told to use physiotherapy or painkillers to dull the pain of an arthritic knee rather than undergo an exploratory surgery
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I would have always thought that surgery be the last resort anyway?
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similarly, in future adenoids would not be removed because evidence now shows that it “is not necessary, doesn’t work well and can cause problems like bleeding and infection”
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Evidence is evidence.
I’m just going off the article but it seems from those examples to be completely rational.
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