Advances in medical technology have played a role here as well; transforming within the span of a generation a surgery that once required 7-10 days of hospital care, to an“ in by 2:00pm, out by 4:00pm” outpatient experience.
And since many( enhanced) medical insurance plans cover many types of surgery – all it needs is a doctor’ s okay – it’ s not uncommon to come across people who have had a litany of surgeries over the past few years. They might even know the surgeons by name, and have a favorite parking spot at the hospital.
Snoring and Surgery Is Often a Bad Combo
It is in light of all this is that we look at snoring, and at surgery. In a nutshell: the two don’ t mix; and this is a bit of a problem to people who are persuaded by medical doctors( or by surgery-addicted colleagues, friends, and relatives) to go under the knife to get rid of that“ pesky snoring problem”. These people may be well intentioned, but they don’ t have all of the facts.
One of the things that they probably don’ t( yet) know – again, not deliberately – is that surgery is not an exact science. It may look that way, especially when one sees the army of hi-tech equipment that clogs many operating rooms and makes one think that they’ re at NASA Mission Control instead of a local hospital.
Surgery Is Exploratory!
However – and even surgeons will readily admit this( or their insurance companies will if they won’ t) – surgery is, always has been, and always will be, somewhat exploratory.
True, some surgeries are better known and more ordinary than others, and the chance of a successful outcome for, say, a quick knee surgery might be radically more predictable than a kidney transplant. But the bottom line is that both of these procedures are surgical, which means that they both have risks.
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