Name: 【TED】Christer Mjåset: 4 questions you should always ask your doctor (4 questions you should always ask your doctor | Christer Mjåset)
Uploaded: 2019-10-14T19:34:21.000Z
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and I'm here to tell you today that people like me need your help.

And in a few moments, I will tell you how.

But first, let me start off by telling you about a patient of mine.

but she had been in and out of hospital a few times

Now she had gotten a prolapse from a cervical disc,

giving her radiating pain of a tense kind,

Looking at her MRI before the consultation,

Now, neck operations like these are standardized, and they're quick.

and you dissect carefully past the trachea,

and you try not to cut into the internal carotid artery.

and you carefully remove the disc and the prolapse

without damaging the cord and the nerve root

The worst case scenario is the damage to the cord,

which can result in paralysis from the neck down.

Explaining this to the patient, she fell silent.

she uttered a few very decisive words for me and for her.

And you know what I realized, right there and then?

In fact, when I get patients like this woman,

I could practically see myself pulling it out of the nerve root canal

before she entered the consultation room.

I have to admit it, I wanted to operate on her.

Operating, after all, is the most fun part of my job.

My architect neighbor says he loves to just sit and draw

than talk to the client paying for the house

that might even give him restrictions on what to do.

every surgeon needs to look their patient in the eye

they need to decide on what is best for the person having the operation.

The tonsils are the two lumps in the back of your throat.

This chart shows the operation rate of tonsillectomies in Norway

What might strike you is that there is twice the chance

that your kid -- because this is for children --

will get a tonsillectomy in Finnmark than in Trondheim.

The indications in both regions are the same.

There should be no difference, but there is.

What you see here is the operation rate for this condition.

And you see that the operation rate in Møre og Romsdal

is five times the operation rate in Stavanger.

Did the soccer players in Møre og Romsdal

play more dirty than elsewhere in the country?

What you see now is the procedures performed

the ones in private clinics are light green.

There is a lot of activity in the private clinics

A possible economic motivation to treat the patients.

Recent research has shown that the difference of treatment effect

between regular physical therapy and operations for the knee --

Meaning that most of the procedures performed

could have been avoided, even in Stavanger.

Even though most indications for treatments in the world

there is a lot of unnecessary variation of treatment decisions,

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【TED】Christer Mjåset: 4 questions you should always ask your doctor (4 questions you should always ask your doctor | Christer Mjåset)

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