6 Craziest Outdated Medical Procedures and Advice Here
When you visit your doctor you expect to be getting the best advice and treatments that modern medicine has to offer. But the term ‘modern medicine’ is all relative — and doesn’t necessarily equate to the ‘best’ care. For instance, morphine, opium, arsenic and mercury are all examples of what were once ‘modern-day’ cures. Decades later, hindsight is 20/20, as they say, since we now know the toxicity of such compounds. It would be naive to believe, however, that there aren’t some wellaccepted medical dogmas being regarded as the best standard of care right now, in 2013, that will one day be seen as equally as insane as soothing teething babies with morphine syrup … Toward that end, we’ve compiled some of the craziest outdated medical procedures, including some that are still in use today, especially in relation to back pain, pain management and weight loss.
Craziest Outdated Medical Procedures from Then and Now 6. Weight Loss Surgery Weight loss surgery such as gastric banding and gastric bypass is on the rise, but did you know that nearly 40 percent (that’s close to half) of