Show h personal Health i Surgery 1 Seldom Necessary In 1 Treatment of Tonsils Tonsils' I kb William Brady j Dr fit I n t may seem presumptuous and for a doctor who p-ea p lIen bumptious j h i not DOt an autho authority ity about anything U to uy y this b but it t cogitated the utter sitter carefully for fir many years y ta and nd Ive I've got 1 it now for far forty J ty own 11 peace of ot d L t fA A Al patient abent not I I's s 's l who lid id ele tro t faU i n n d ather- ather 1 trek treatment ref ef d infected tongs ton ton- Dr Brad Brady ll gs J many years Ingo ago jo bu hA since been examined d b by j H inore nose and throat specialists r rm i. i et e ear ar specialist and two all- all r h head ad of eye ec nose eye nose ear specialists and believe it r CT Rao tIl upon learning that the rt had received diathermy i treatment ent every cry one of these self- self little men in private life Ban of them I know are not at ce ted or arbitrary looked atthe it the patients patient's throat and uttered the same banality But my dear I sir you still have your tonsils I The very utterance and the implication implication im lm- It so subtly conveys Is a asad asad asad sad commentary on the professional professional professional competence of the physicians physicians physicians who blabber like that In the presence of ot an Intelligent patient Now children tell me if you had say an infected I Igland gland in your upper eyelid and I your physician drained or pasteurized pasteur pasteur- or disinfected lit it with diathermy my and years year later you came under 1 the he care of an eye specialist and I told old the specialist your history and he remarked But my friend you still have your eyes would you still have confidence In the specialists specialist's medical or surgical ability Well Vell If any physician or surgeon or specialist of standing questions the propriety or the honesty of ot m my teaching about this on his own re responsibility responsibility responsibility re- re without the help of any unidentified authorities let him lim state what he beli believes ves to bethe bo be bothe bothe the truth and Ill I'll print it here without revealing his name unless by his written ritten consent The death rate from tonsillectomy my is high Even if it only one child out but of subjected to tomy omy dies from the operation the death leath rate Is too high to justify the attempt to remove the entire tonsil in n any circumstance short of malignancy ma- ma ignancy cancer Copyright 1948 John F. F Dille Co |