Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo: A Surgeon Cuts Through the Evidence exposes the alarming truth about unnecessary surgeries, placebo effects in surgical outcomes, and the medical industry's reliance on invasive procedures with questionable benefits. This book is highly relevant to the Center for Integrative Neuroscience, as it challenges the blind trust in surgical interventions over evidence-based, non-invasive treatments. For those who have witnessed patient harm, medical gaslighting, and systemic failures in healthcare, this book validates the need for accountability, informed consent, and integrative approaches that prioritize patient well-being over profit-driven medical decisions.
 
For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. That these claims come from an experienced, practicing orthopedic surgeon who performs many of these operations himself, makes the unsettling argument particularly compelling. Of course no surgeon is recommending invasive surgery in bad faith, but Ian Harris argues that the evidence for the success for many common operations, including knee arthroscopies, back fusion or cardiac stenting, become current accepted practice without full examination of the evidence.