This can prevent unnecessary surgery or help determine the best choice for treatment.

The knowledge could potentially one day help us understand climate change, increase world food production and even avoid unnecessary surgeries.

As a result, he added, doctors may subject some patients to unnecessary surgery, and still make no connection.

The cost to the patient and the baby for unnecessary surgery may be substantial.

Another step to cut waste and costs is to stop performing unnecessary surgery.

This strategy is not the same thing as pushing everyone into unnecessary surgery for the sake of profit.

Ironically, improvements in medical care are also contributing to the problem of unnecessary surgery.

Sometimes patients must share the blame for unnecessary surgery.

By no means do we want this to result in unnecessary surgery.

Second opinions to eliminate unnecessary surgery are one aspect of that change, and I think they're often a good idea.