When laparoscopic cholecystectomy was introduced in this country around 1990 the whole country’s surgical community wanted to be trained at once. Surgeons consider gallbladder surgery a “bread-and-butter” operation and in the late 1980s two new non-surgical treatments (lithotripsy and ursodiol dissolution) were taking business away from them–big time. They saw this new procedure as a means to winning business back and jumped in with both feet. Patient safety was tossed aside like an old rag. This new surgery was extremely dangerous; it was too new. There were no experts in the introductory phase. All were amateurs. But that didn’t stop them from using up patient lives like tissue paper training a whole country of amateurs (include Canada, Australia, England, etc. They did it too.) who make their worst mistakes in the first 50 they perform.
For their victims, it meant almost certain death or permanent injury. But the new, dangerous surgery could not be sold to the public as it actually stood. It would have to be marketed opposite of reality and as the medical syndicate only wished it would become after this initial large training swarm was satisfied. Who, in their right mind, would willingly proceed with a recommended surgery they knew in advance would be performed by green trainees and would surely kill or permanently injure them?
A bile duct injury is practically irreparable even in the best of hands. People with this injury become permanently crippled and lead short, miserable lives. In time, this injury destroys all major organ systems: heart, kidneys, spleen. But in that time waiting to die those injured need lots of interventions, treatments, prescriptions, office visits, and so on just to maintain–VERY expensive.
The medical syndicate knew all this up front, of course. They knew that they would have to trick A LOT of trusting, innocent people onto the operating table to meet their enormous training needs. They knew most, if not all, of these people would be injured or killed outright. They also knew the health insurance companies would be called upon to foot the huge, back-breaking expense of providing proper, expensive aftercare to this flood of injured policyholders and expose themselves to malpractice liability since these insurance companies often, also, own the hospitals where this deadly training was going to occur on the sly. This is called a “crime against humanity and “mass murder”. It is an atrocity. Just like the Tuskeegee Syphillis Study. Except this time so many more lives would be taken in numbers very difficult to hide or explain away. The medical mafia would need help hiding this crime. Lots of help. And the insurance companies would need help too: they could not afford proper aftercare for their injured policyholders for the number that would require it. So the medical syndicate went to the government and the health insurers and made a deal…God forgive them, they are monsters