The Good, Bad and Foreboding.
The Good, Bad and Foreboding.
The “sacroiliac joint” is quickly becoming a household phrase like the “herniated lumbar disc” secondary to it being the second major cause of low back pain with tens of thousands of patients
having surgery on this joint each year. This book tells the story of how a joint that has been an obscure part of human anatomy for millennia has in the past decade resulted in the creation of over 30 startup companies dedicated to creating surgical devices to implant into this joint for the purpose of relieving severe chronic pain.
This story is an in-depth non-proprietary look into how industry in America’s for-profit capitalistic health care system has gone about achieving this growing financially successful enterprise. This is despite the fact that surgeons are not educated formally on surgery for this joint for this purpose, they are not board certified to perform these surgeries, there are no organizations or government institutions that provide meaningful oversite when complications do occur, which are many and have been fatal, and industry and their surrogates continue to be the prime educators for all surgeons performing these tens of thousand sof procedures. The end result for patients is that their importance has been reduced to simply that of providing profit for device manufacturers and their global investors while being subjected to an increasingly dangerous medical environment lacking in education and oversight.
This book offers those involved in this flawed multilayered complex system several recommendations to fix its missteps and put our health care system back on track. This will entail a major paradigm shift for America’s for-profit capitalistic health care to take. It will require a ground up fight for change, because meaningful change won’t be coming from the top down.
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