More than 400,000 patients in the US have coronary artery bypass graft surgery each year, showing a loss of brain function in up to 70 per cent at discharge and more than one-third of patients after three months.
Coronary-bypass surgery consumes more of our medical dollar than any other treatment or procedure. Although it is performed less frequently than the most common abdominal and gynecological operations, it is the leader in terms of equipment and personnel, hospital space, and total associated revenues.
Scientific studies have shown that except in certain well-defined situations, bypass surgery does not save lives, or even prevent heart attacks.
Among patients who suffer from coronary-artery disease, those who are treated without surgery enjoy the same survival rates as those who undergo open-heart surgery.
In 1977 the Veterans Administration reported a study showing that bypass surgery caused no decrease in average annual mortality among patients with ordinary angina unless they happened to be suffering from an obstruction of the left main coronary artery, a particularly severe form of heart disease.
In 1978 researchers for the National Institutes of Health completed a similar study, randomly assigning patients with unstable angina to either surgery or nonsurgery; their findings mirrored those of the VA experiment. No difference could be determined in rates of survival between the two groups-in other words, the cases were not real emergencies, as had been assumed, and heroic surgery was not saving lives.
AMERICAN CARDIOLOGISTS HAVE KNOWN FOR OVER 30 YEARS THAT CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTS ARE NO MORE EFFICACIOUS OR DO NOT SAVE ANY MORE LIVES THAN TREATMENT WITH MEDICATION. DO THE RESEARCH FOR YOURSELF AND SEE WHY I CALL INTERVENTIONALIST CARDIOLOGISTS WHO SCARE AND COERCE THEIR PATIENTS INTO UNNEEDED BYPASSES - MEDICAL TERRORISTS WHO SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH ASSAULT.
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