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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 13 Feb 2019

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Mark Hoofnagle

    These operations were called "peak and shriek" where I trained. The surgeon would open the abdomen, and then "shriek" because he'd find so much dead bowel that the patient couldn't survive. He'd then close, because there was nothing he could do.https://twitter.com/MarkHoofnagle/status/1095571502009856000 …

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    By way of an example, an older person has mesenteric ischemia - dead gut. I may offer surgery even though the published mortality is 50%, because otherwise their mortality is 100%, and it’s a bad way to go. So yes. Half of such folks will die after the surgery, but not of it.
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      1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 13 Feb 2019

        The patient would then be put on a morphine drip and nature allowed to take its course.

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      1. Dr Asif Qasim  💙‏ @DrAsifQasim 13 Feb 2019
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        ...in Cambridge UK as a student more like peak and “oh dear” - cultural differences!!

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      1. Duke 'Zesty Quip Employer' Zero‏ @B_Sputnik 13 Feb 2019
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        honestly torn on whether to rt this because it's informative but also horrifying but also surgeons see so much horror it would be good to share so we can maybe take on a bit of that burden of knowledge

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      1. J.Sebelius‏ @JtSebelius 13 Feb 2019
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        My sister was in that position. It was a miracle as she survived. But it was surreal waiting to see what the surgeon would find and not knowing if she would come thru the operation.That was on!y about five years ago.

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      1. Terry Gorski‏ @id_terry 13 Feb 2019
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        You don't know until you try.

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      2. Alexey Z. Spectre‏ @LoonySpectre 15 Feb 2019
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        My mom died after such an operation yesterday. The doctors did try to save what they could, but she didn't wake up after the surgery.

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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 15 Feb 2019
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        Yes, it's horrible. The decision isn't hard if 100% of the bowel is dead (not survivable) but becomes very hard when, say, 50% or 75% is dead. Very low chance of survival in elderly patients, but not zero, and needing total parenteral nutrition for the rest of life is not benign.

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