appendectomies

The real goal of insurance is to keep you from going bankrupt over appendectomies and broken bones.

Maybe you're right in this instance, but your reasoning is fallacious.[0] What are your feelings on vaccines, pacemakers, and appendectomies?

My dad did hundreds, or thousands, of appendectomies over a career as a surgeon, but they took a lot of effort.

It is owned by a PE firm, and people wonder why appendectomies now cost $30k and simple ambulance rides are $15k.

That's true from antibiotics to chemotherapy to appendectomies to skin grafts to casting broken bones.

You could look at appendectomies, seen more often in younger people for no apparent cause.

Going to have to bring this to our team - we have been working on appendectomies as well.

Almost seems like a good idea for astronauts to get prophylactic appendectomies done.

This incidence is the same as for appendicitis (10%) and cholecystitis (12%), yet prophylactic appendectomies and cholecystectomies are not the standard of care.

So if the admissions standards were lowered around the organic chemistry requirement, I don't think it would affect appendectomies.

The most routine imaginable surgeries --- appendectomies, laparoscopic gall bladder removals --- all have average costs that greatly exceed average out-of-pocket caps for insurance.

The first thing I think is: do admissions standards and test performance correlate to shitty appendectomies?

At the end of residency, a “general surgeon” can do common and basic things like appendectomies.

For instance, if you train for "general surgery", you need to do about 25 appendectomies, about 35 cholecystectomies, and so on.

"Rare" is an overloaded word, so let me clarify: I asked one of my friends who's a general surgeon, and he estimates he does 1 to 2 open cholecystectomies or appendectomies per year.

I remember asking my dad (who was a doctor who performed surgeries - mostly c-sections and appendectomies - often) about masks, and his answer in the early 80s was interesting: “It’s mostly to prevent me from getting spit into open wounds and incisions when I'm talking or I have to sneeze or cough.

Appendectomies were likely debated as painful end-of-life treatments by those who first attempted them.