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On the one hand, this focus on solving snoring is quite welcome; it signifies that qualified
medical people (i.e. the educated folks in lab coats who are paid to solve health
problems) are very interested in finding some answers, and very willing to commit their
large brains to this important task.
Yet on the other hand, this focus on solving snoring is, ironically, beset with additional
problems. Quite simply, there is a lack of quality information with respect to what
solutions work, and what solutions quite frankly don’t work.
Though it’s always more fun to focus on the positives – and that’s certainly what we’ll do
in this book – it’s necessary for us to first take a look at something a bit negative:
surgery; or more specifically: why surgery isn’t often the way to go if you want to end
snoring once and for all. We take a look at this in Section 3, below.
SECTION 3: WHY SURGERY CAN BE A BAD IDEA
One of the nicest things about living in the 21 st century is the amount of surgical options
available to more people, including more and more people in the developing world
(though, obviously, not enough).
Quite sincerely, countless numbers of lives have been outright saved, or inestimably
improved, due to surgery. I doubt you’d find anyone who would absolutely conclude that
surgery, as a concept, is a mistake; or that we should long for pre-surgery days, where
infections and ailments so easily morphed into life-threatening conditions.
Are We Addicted to Surgery?
Yet (and yes, there’s always a yet!), there is a bit of a cloud attached to this surgical silver
lining. We now live in a world that is, for all intents and purposes, addicted to surgery.
It has become the first option – and in some cases, the only option – that both doctors and
patients consider when trying to remedy a problem.
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