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This recent NPR piece on Voluntarily Uninsured: A 'Calculated Risk' got my attention... it is out of our hands. In other words, while we can decrease risk by staying healthy, as a doctor I see too many times... 
Millions of tonsillectomies have been done, mostly to children. Were any of their parents... since the 1960s)? A Cochrane Review of tonsillectomies (the “highest standard” in evidence-based medicine) fails...
further into tonsillectomies and found that the risks were routinely greatly understated, even by advocates of evidence-based... the risks of tonsillectomies. Compare their list of possible bad effects to mine.
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. It regulates blood pressure and sugar levels in body and thus helps in preventing the risk of getting diabetes..., tonsillectomy is the most common major surgery performed on children and it’s a huge money-maker for mainstream...
infection. Because they are blamed for most cases of repeated throat infections, tonsillectomy is one..., many tonsillectomies today are being performed unnecessarily. Simultaneously, there are too many tonsils still left...
implications, including toxic reactions, device damage, inadequate disinfection/sterilization, increased risk... to assess the cleanliness of channels between patients contribute to increasing the risk of cross-infection...
risk of bleeding on adult patients).
i was on the pain medication for exactly 2 and a half days... to have them!)
the only positive account of someone who has had a tonsillectomy as an adult came from my ultra-running buddy Pete...
me. The post recovery comes with some risks though, as this is a vascular procedure along with lots of pain.... He joked with me and told me to begin a blog for Nate called, "Memoirs of a Tonsillectomy." I am not sure... 
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