Book Review - "Surgery: The Ultimate Placebo" by Professor Ian Harris

This is a "must read" book - it has a great explanation of how evidence-based science works (or doesn't) and challenges us to question whether doing things "because that is the way we have always done it" is in fact the best way to do things or whether it should be done at all, for instance treating appendicitis at first instance with surgery rather than a trial of IV antibiotics.

"Surgery: The Ultimate Placebo" by Professor Ian Harris (New South Books, Australian RRP $24.99).