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Published on: 8/22/2003
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"Each approach to diagnosis and treatment is essentially a franchise, and there are too many franchises battling for control," says Dr. Seth Waldman, who is the chief of the Division of Pain Medicine at New York's Hospital for Special Surgery, a major referral center for bone and joint disorders."In medicine, if you are able to stick a needle into a person, you are reimbursed at a much better rate by the insurance company, So there is a tremendous drive to perform invasive procedures, discography is one of them.At the hospital where I was a fellow training in 1993, discograms were rarely done," Waldman went on.
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Dr. Waldman, at New York's Hospital for Special Surgery; regularly sees spinal fusion patients who experience persistent pain after multiple operations.
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In the meantime, Dr. Seth Waldman, who sees the consequences of failed fusions at the Hospital for Special Surgery every week, wishes that the medical profession could be persuaded to show a little restraint."If you have a screwdriver, every thing looks like a screw," he said.