Why are Doctors Performing Procedures Their Patients Don’t Need?

A recent study found that in one year 600,000 patients underwent a medical procedure that they did not need. The recent rise in leg stent surgeries have people calling this an overused procedure. Are doctors doing this out of the best interest of their patients, or are they doing it for financial gain? Dr. Joel Kahn weighs in.

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[michael-m]

Money. The answer is money. It's disgusting

[THEREALDEAL-pudx]

WHY? Mortgage payments. And what adults need to understand, MDs will find every opportunity to cut you open somewhere, even if you can do without. Can’t be trusted.

[praiseyahwehandyeshua]

My eye doctor lied to me I know this because I went to a different one that was better and then they said nothing was wrong

[kfcfingerlicker]

Simple. It's just plain business. The Hippocratic oath has now become the hypocritical oath.

America does what America does.

[erinmccarthy]

Surgeons make bank on our procedures. Notice they take a vacation afterwards?!

[lorirugato]

My Dr told me I need a stent in my left leg. I went for 2nd opinion he said he want to do a bypass. With this covid it's been delayed. I don't trust my Dr cause he was screaming at me cause I didn't like the Dr he sent me to. Now I'm stuck here in Wilmington, NC and don't trust these Dr's. I'm trying to go to N.Y. to a cardiologist that family has but again covid in the way. Meanwhile my left leg does cramp up causing pain. Your thoughts please!!

[gt]

I didn't need a sex change? Now he tells me!

[pearla.positivity]

What do you do when your doctor monitors you for 10 years without you knowing your creatinine levels are elevated? Now you have a new doctor after a nurse points out you have CKD issues. Shock you let the new doctor know you're now aware of an issue. I still don't realize the full extent yet. The new doctor has to take various tests. Now, she is not really giving me a diagnosis. I keep texting her in the medical app, asking her what should or shouldn't do. I've asked her if she should. I see a specialist. I asked her if she should. I see a kidney dietician, and so on. Now! May of 2024 She gave me a diagnosis of Stage 3 CKD. Please help. Their failure to imform me of CKD 10 years ago and diagnose of having issues with creatinine levels. Then, when found, there's an issue she still wasn't clear or told what I should and / or shouldn't do. This lackadaisical handling is unexceptable and unprofessional.😢

[charlieblvd]

Can a vascular surgeon remove blood clots? DVT = deep vein thrombosis.

[AgxntAqua]

Well he's an ironic messenger for this problem considering the talk show and all. But he's still better than Oz.

[dalladi]

Why don't doctors ever talk about the cause with any seriousness? There's no sense of prevention and then a 'patient' is coerced into a procedure or a drug or whatever, often destroying their life forever; hundreds of thousands of people die years from malpractice or misdiagnosis. And when these people are paid, are rich like that, they become MORE of who they are, so if they're manipulative, money makes them more so. And NO ONE asked me, a person part of the vulnerable population what I wanted when it came to my broken arm...THERE IS NOT ENOUGH HELP

[HurlingMongroach]

My doctors let me die literally ur medical field is a joke