Here's an interesting statement from Charlie Teo. Does anyone know of these studies? I can't find them in Pubmed or on Google Scholarpic.twitter.com/LawsXQpWjd
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The other confounder is that he seems to take on cases which other surgeons have declined.
In fairness to Teo his results probably confounded by the cases he chooses. Unfortunately limitations are relatively common to most surgical studies (surgery generally being an evidence black hole - Harris' book is an easy read intro into the morass https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/surgery-ultimate-placebo/ …)
Larger issue (highly relevant to surgical field beyond Teo) is studies (i.e this technique fixed X) and media (i.e. this surgeon/hopital fixes X) tend to focus on positive case studies, with little focus negative cases. AHPRA bans testimonials for this reason (unrepresentative)
Pretty much. Teo may work miracles, but without a comparator group it's just a series of case reports that tells us little about whether it actually works
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