What's the purpose for tonsillectomies and appendectomies?
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Tonsillectomies are performed contained by patients who have had recurrent throat infections.
AThe appendix is removed when infected or the infection have burst the appendix, in which case it is a medical emergency.
Appendectomy is the treatment for appendicitis. The untaught course of the disease is that it will lead to peritonitis which is often fatal, and non-surgical alternatives do not come close within effectiveness.
The indication for tonsillectomy is somewhat different. Peritonsillar abscess can be treated with drainage and antibiotics, for instance, but if not followed by tonsillectomy, there's a elevated rate of recurrence, so tonsillectomy may be considered for that reason. More tonsillectomies, however, are done simply because medical management of chronic and frequently persistent tonsillitis has failed.
Obama says they are done to make the doctors rich.
I only do appendectomies if in attendance is inflammation and pain.
I don't do tonsilectomies but I see them done to help breathing and minimize sore throat recurrence.
Old Doc
To bankroll the lavish lifestyles of surgeons.
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