From our friends at Consumer Reports – 12 Surgeries You May Be Better Off Without. 

 It shouldn’t come as any surprise that episiotomy, cesarean section and hysterectomy are 3,4, and 5 on the list.   

 What does surprise me, though, are the women in my life who underwent these procedures for the most dubious of reasons  credit their care providers for ’saving’ their life or health.   I fail to understand the snow job at work here.