Bypass Surgery – Fraud or Resolution?

Heart bypass surgery is increasingly used in the treatment of coronary heart disease, yet some believe it is unwarranted. A few believe it is not only unwarranted, but is in fact a swindle – a racket to make doctors rich. Don’t get bypass surgery; it is fraud, they say. Those who say it, however, have [...]

Heart Bypass Surgery Complications – Part 1

Heart bypass surgery is somewhat like highway construction work. If a rock slide blocks a highway, a new route can be constructed to reroute traffic flow around the blockage. The old road may never be opened again. It may remain blocked permanently, but traffic flow is restored fully. Similarly, heart bypass surgery reroutes blood flow [...]

Heart Bypass Surgery Complications – Part 2

Heart bypass surgery is, as we noted in Part 1 of this article, like rerouting traffic around a rock slide that has blocked a highway. A new route is constructed to let traffic flow around the blockage, and the old route is closed forever. Heart bypass surgery is currently one of the most common surgeries [...]

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