Surgery

Women are at an especially high risk of unnecessary surgery.

Women may be at an especially high risk for unwarranted operations, since hysterectomies and Cesarean sections also top the list of "over prescribed and unnecessary" surgeries. Of the approximately 750,000 hysterectomies performed each year, 90 percent are unnecessary, writes Goldberg in Alternative Medicine, making the removal of a woman's uterus one of the most commonly performed unnecessary surgeries. And the risk that comes with an unwarranted hysterectomy is high. "Each year 750,000 hysterectomies are performed and 2,500 women die during the operation. These are not sick women, but healthy women who go into the hospital and do not come out," says Dr. Herbert Goldfarb, a gynecologist and assistant clinical professor at New York University's School of Medicine, in Null's Woman's Encyclopedia Of Natural Healing.

Women are also frequently subjected to Caesarean sections they don't really need. With an estimated 920,000 Cesarean births performed each year, the Cesarean has become the "most common major surgery in America" and it is four times more likely a woman will give birth via cesarean section today than it was in 1970, according to The Medical Racket by Martin L. Gross. Women are also at special risk for receiving unwarranted surgeries because of the results of a mammogram, since the high rate of false positives in mammography often leads to invasive procedures. Women who do not even have cancer to begin with are treated for breast cancer, Goldberg writes. That's right: These women's bodies are carved up and altered and they aren't even sick. So why does this happen?

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