The ‘Minor’ Surgery That Follows Kids for Decades

Millions of people grew up thinking their tonsils were useless lumps of tissue. Surgeons remove them from half a million children every year in the United States alone. Then researchers tracked those patients for thirty years. The data collected challenged the medical community to reconsider routine tonsil removal. In this video, we walk you through the implications of what happens after this procedure.

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