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COMMENTS: What a Nerve Ending!
Robert Bazell filed part two of Back Story, NBC's series on chronic back pain. Monday, the series cited the astonishing statistics that the annual medical bill for bad backs amounts to $90bn. Now Bazell tells us that most of that is spent on surgery--1m procedures a year averaging $60,000 each--even though "several large studies have shown that back surgery is often only marginally effective" and frequently no better than physical therapy.
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