Anne Ashford flinches when she begins to recall the painful "grinding and grating" in her swollen knees when her osteoarthritis was at its worst about seven years ago. Her first surgeon booked her in for arthroscopic knee surgery, but it had to be postponed because [...]
More than 70,000 knee arthroscopies were performed in 2011 in Australia and, though rates of the surgical procedure are now falling, it still remains one of the most common surgical procedures. But is it effective?
Wiser Healthcare's Prof Rachelle Buchbinder makes an appearance on SBS's 2018 Episode 14 'Joint Operation', a discussion about how patients, surgeons and other specialists can make a joint decision about when to operate, or not...
Despite years of warnings, doctors are still performing thousands of inappropriate and unnecessary treatments and surgeries each year, placing patients at risk and ultimately pushing up health insurance premiums...