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“Bypass surgery, angioplasty,and even diagnostic angiograms are so over used that, in my opinion, it constitutes criminal behaviour by the cardiologists and surgeons involved. Well controlled scientific studies have shown bypass surgery simply doesn't work, except to relieve severe chest pain. Those who have the surgery didn't even have a trend of longevity benefit compared to those treated without it. Yet, each year hundreds of thousands cave into the obvious fear tactics used by agressive heart doctors and submit to the bypass operation”

“... surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate placebo. The effectiveness of a placebo is directly proportional to the impression it makes on the patient's subconscious mind.”

Mind Pain Powerful Ultimate Patient Impression Therapy Injury Subconscious Surgery Effectiveness Subconscious Mind Placebo

Author:John E. Sarno

“Dealing with adversity is like preparing for surgery. By putting our faith in what the doctor has said, we believe we will be better off if we have the surgery. But that does not make it any less painful. By submitting to the hand of a surgeon, we are saying that our ultimate goal is health, even at the cost of pain. Adversity is the same way. It is a means to an end. It is God's tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives.”

Source: How to Handle Adversity

“Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the traditions such as surgery for back pain being true - the evidence says it doesn't work.”

Pain Simple Powerful Evidence Tradition Doctors Patient Being True Therapy Injury Ingredients Contracts Surgery Intervention Very Powerful Time Spent Back Pain

Book:Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign

Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign

“In the performance of our duty one feeling should direct us; the case we should consider as our own, and we should ask ourselves, whether, placed under similar circumstances, we should choose to submit to the pain and danger we are about to inflict.”

Should Feelings Pain Asks Cases Danger Duty Circumstances Direct Performances Submit Surgery

Author:Astley Cooper

“I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.”

Pain Painful Shoulders Not Sure Surgery

Author:James Caan

“I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.”

People Humans Hands Care Pain Human Beings Animal Forgiving Dues Wounds Bites Minors Apologizing Surgery Bite Me

Author:Bernie Siegel

“The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.”

Knows Helping Pain Felt Hurt Sorrow Help Me Wounded Surgery Surgeons Life Hurts

Book:Where Is God When it Hurts/What's So Amazing About Grace?

Source: Where Is God When it Hurts/What's So Amazing About Grace?