It was not too long ago, just over 100 years where medical procedures such as Bloodletting, Lobotomies and leech therapies were common place. Thankfully, we have advanced tremendously in healthcare technology where you can wear a top-hat as a fashion accessory rather than covering up the hole in your head from one of those wacky procedures.
Now you can get a glimpse into just how much America spends on the most common medical and cosmetic procedures.
Under the Knife: 14 Most Common Medical and Cosmetic Procedures in the USA by Common Medical and Cosmetic Procedures is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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We hope you found the infographic “Under the Knife: 14 Most Common Medical and Cosmetic Procedures in the USA” educational and enlightening. You probably knew that the most common Medical procedure would be Physical Exams, but it came as a surprise to us that breast augmentation is the leading Cosmetic procedure! Consumers as a whole spent about 5X more on Cat Scans than Physical Exams.
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I’m curious that you included mastectomy, c-sections and circumcision, but not abortions. There are 1.2 million procedures every year, making it one of the most common medical procedures that women will experience in their lifetimes.