Why Get a Second Opinion? | DrEricBergDC

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let’s talk about getting a second opinion  whether it’s for some type of medical condition  

or whatever an effective treatment solution  to a medical problem should not give you  

another health problem there are always  risks involved or side effects so you  

really want to make sure you’re getting the  correct solution to your problem so getting  

a second or third or fourth opinion is really  just expanding the amount of data that you have  

so you can evaluate more effectively  now there’s two things i want to mention  

when you evaluate you have to have good data you  can’t have false data you also have to have all  

the data to evaluate you can’t have missing  data and i want to relate this to a recent  

situation that i ran into with a friend who had  this condition called spondylolisthesis which is a  

a fracture in the lower back a lot of  people actually have this condition  

where the vertebra like the lumbar vertebra  should be aligned but what’s happening it’s  

shifted forward because the back part is  fractured so then the spinal cord can pinch in the  

back part it’s called spondylolisthesis and so  um he got it from a an old injury he fell on  

his tailbone and apparently created a fracture  didn’t know it then later in life he had back  

pain he didn’t know what it was he had an x-ray  and sure enough he had this condition um you  

have to realize that there’s a lot of ligaments  and tendons and muscles that hold that in place  

and so there are certain levels or grades of  having this condition from from grade one to three  

or four when it gets really really severe and so  anyway he had this condition he went to the doctor  

and uh he wanted a second opinion from me  i looked at his x-rays it was a grade one  

it was not majorly severe and he had some mild  symptoms and he was going to physical therapy  

and the doctor said you better get the surgery or  you’re going to be a cripple he said the surgery  

is totally safe and the physical therapy is  not really long lasting so that was the data  

he had to evaluate and so when you evaluate you  need to have all the information available and  

the problem is with you doing research you might  google it but you might not find it in the first  

five pages you have to dig deep because  sometimes this data is buried but here  

are some of the missing data that i told him  number one um just from experience working with  

you know tens of thousands of people i’ve ran into  quite a few people with this condition and there  

are certain exercises that can majorly help this  condition which by the way i will do a separate  

video on and these exercises can stabilize that  condition to the point where the person could  

literally be without pain now it is true that  the complications from surgery is rare however  

there are other things that could definitely  increase the risk of getting these complications  

number one if you’re a smoker well guess what he’s  a chain smoker number two if you have arthritis  

well guess what he has massive arthritis through  this entire spine so the risk of some of these  

complications are definitely higher now the other  piece of information that i gave him so he can  

correctly evaluate what the doctor told him as  far as success level well in my book doesn’t  

seem to be that successful or effective  but when you actually look at the studies  

it was 73% successful so what does that mean you  have a 73 percent of having a successful surgery  

what about the other percentage what  happens with that is there permanent damage  

what type of side effects is it really going to  be safe enough not to give you another problem  

could there be any accident  where the person is permanently  

paralyzed that was the question i want to know  and that potentially could happen too so a 73  

success rate especially when he’s getting therapy  and he’s almost pain-free just does not make  

sense i also told him this anytime a doctor is  using fear to motivate you that’s not a good  

motivating factor you should just give that  patient all the data so they can truly evaluate  

based on true information and having all of  the data there now i want to mention one more  

point when you evaluate something sometimes the  patient is invalidated or made wrong for looking  

at another viewpoint or another opinion i think  that’s definitely not okay as well so let’s say  

they want to look at alternative care or nutrition  or different diet that is sometimes invalidated as  

something that’s quackery or it has no scientific  basis or the science is settled and you shouldn’t  

look at that or even consider that and i say  that because when you start to really look at  

research and how much corruption there is i  mean it’s incredible the problem is most people  

cannot comprehend the research and so they’re  always getting second hand information by getting  

some interpretation or an opinion from the actual  research because i mean when i even read certain  

research on keto for example and you find out the  research was an observational study based on a  

questionnaire or that the so-called ketogenic diet  really wasn’t a ketogenic diet it was actually a  

high carb diet with high fat so you really have  to have all the data make sure it’s factual  

make sure that there’s nothing missing in order  to make the best decision all right thanks for  

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