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Re: Bromide
What it comes down to is this: We think the risks of surgery are acceptably low. Yet they are much higher, for many common procedures, than those for, say, driving. And they go up fast if you're old, obese or unusual in other ways. We're not just dealing with fallibility here, or uncertainty; although we have plenty of both. We're talking about known and well-calculated risks that we rationalize to easily. I also have a feeling that the deaths away from the hospital after "day surgery" are higher than we think. Don't know, though. There are responses to this message:
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