1.   He is suing the doctor who performed the unnecessary surgery.

2.   And they argue that the rise in imaging is actually bringing down overall health care costs, by reducing the number of wrong diagnoses and unnecessary surgery.

3.   But it warned that such mammograms might also harm some women through radiation or by leading to unnecessary surgery or false complacency.

4.   But Mastroianni said he did not recall any dispute over the procedure at the time beyond the standard sensitivity to unnecessary surgery and undue risk.

5.   Health writers often warn readers about high rates of unnecessary surgery and caution them to beware of surgeons who are too quick to operate.

6.   His current insurer sees the operations as unnecessary surgery.

7.   In Denver, there have been lawsuits against doctors who performed unnecessary surgery because they thought a flattened head was craniosynostosis, when it was not.

8.   Nevertheless, experts say, the use of MRI scans often leads to unnecessary surgery.

9.   Then came pressures from consumer groups, insurers and government agencies to curb unnecessary surgery and the risks it entailed.

10.   They travel from doctor to doctor, hospital to hospital, fabricating dramatic symptoms, taking unnecessary medications and undergoing unnecessary surgery.