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BYPASS SURGERY -MEDICAL MARVEL OR MEDICAL MALPRACTICE? DOES THE OPERATION PREVENT FUTURE HEART ATTACK?

Does the operation prevent future heart attack? Not according to Dr. Preston and others who report: there are NO studies to date that have shown this operation prevents infarction. When it comes to arrhythmia, even the pro-bypass rooting squad admits there is no possibility surgery will prevent arrhythmias. Scads of research reports exhibit little or no beneficial improvement of heart muscle functioning after bypass surgery. What about symptom relief? As Dr. Preston and others have pointed out, any procedure that reduces anxiety will produce symptomatic improvement. If the patient is convinced the therapy is 'good', he'll report feeling better. "Think of the patient, who's been told: 'You're a living time bomb'. Then we operate on him and two months later, we tell him 'you're cured' and put him on a treadmill to test his improvement . And does he go to it! He reports 'I'm much better'. "To what can we attribute his progress? Clearly there's an emotional factor involved. He's been told he's better, he has a vested interest in his operation paying off, and he reports tremendous results as expected. Interestingly enough, there's a study that shows people normally do better on second treadmill tests, even with no intervening therapy or treatment, simply because they are more comfortable with the procedure. They know they won't fall off, drop dead, whatever, etc.. There's a powerful psychological component to this that cannot be lightly dismissed."

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