Patients in the United States depend on their doctors for medical care and advice, and often trust whatever their doctor says. But what happens when a doctor unnecessarily performs medical procedures, ranging from tests to surgeries, at a patient\u2019s expense?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>Doctors may perform an array of medical procedures in order to diagnose or treat an illness. Statistics show, however, that doctors also perform a number of unnecessary<\/em> procedures<\/a>. Some procedures that doctors perform that could be unnecessary for a specific patient include:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Unnecessary medical procedures are a big problem in the United States. To be sure, a 2013 article published in Scientific American<\/em><\/a> highlights data from the Institute of Medicine stating that unnecessary medical procedures cost about $750 billion each year, and comprise 30 percent of all medical costs. A separate article published that same year in USA Today<\/em><\/a> found that unnecessary surgeries account for 10 to 20 percent of all operations in some specialties, and that tens of thousands of patients each year are affected.<\/p>\n Unnecessary procedures can lead to false positives (leading to treatment that the patient doesn\u2019t need); be time intensive and risky for a patient\u2019s health; lead to other complications (i.e. risk of infection with surgery); and be economically disadvantageous to a patient, too.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>If you are someone who has undergone an unnecessary medical procedure and has suffered harm, contact our national and experienced medical malpractice lawyers<\/a> at the office of Napoli Shkolnik for a free consultation<\/a> today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Patients in the United States depend on their doctors for medical care and advice, and often trust whatever their doctor says. But what happens when a doctor unnecessarily performs medical…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medical-malpractice"],"acf":[],"page_builder_type":"gutenberg","gutenberg_data":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
How Big is the Problem?<\/h3>\n
What to Do if\u00a0 You Are a Victim of an Unnecessary Procedure<\/h3>\n