There is No Standardized ETS Procedure

Did you know that ETS surgery is one of the most unregulated procedures in the whole medical industry?

Even ETS surgeons cannot agree on the best surgical method, optimal location for nerve dissection, and the nature and extent of the consequent primary effects and side effects. This simply means there is no standardized procedure for this surgery. Every ETS surgeon does things a little bit different to the next, which means the results you get will differ even by having the exact same procedure carried out by a different surgeon.

But here's the disconcerting part, and is something that no ETS surgeon will ever admit to. These surgeons experiment slightly with every procedure they do to see if the results they get vary from the previous one. They might snip the sympathetic nerve at a slightly different location and compare the side-effects with what they got last time. Sometimes the results might be a little bit better; sometimes they might be worse. Who knows? Every patient that goes under the knife is in fact a human guinea pig.

There also appears to be much secrecy amongst ETS surgeons. Rather than collaborating with one another and uploading all their results to one single database which can be seen and shared amongst all ETS surgeons right around the world, the grim reality is it's a case of 'every man for himself' because each surgeon wants to gain a competitive advantage over the next because it helps with their reputation, their income and of course, their egos.

Unfortunately, this tweaking and experimenting from one patient to the next has to come at someone else's expense. And guess whose that might be?