I had a call from an anxious relative who was worried about a 5% complication of developing renal failure following a cardiac surgery
she wanted to know if they should avoid surgery due to this
when there is 5% chance of developing a complication and it is explained to you, it also means that there is 95% chance of not having this complication.
this looks too good to refuse surgery, does it not?
chances of developing complications are explained routinely in medical care facility by health care professionals.
May be we have to change this approach?
Let us start explaining the chances of success of surgery and percentage of not having complications in consenting.
this will surely help the patients in reassuring way prior to a stressful period of having interventions
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