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Another Example of A Common Medical Intervention that Lacks Evidence

11/3/2017

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  1. Modern medicine has a long history of promoting procedures that make money for doctors, hospitals and large corporations before there is good science showing that they really are beneficial for patients, and/or that the benefits outweigh the risks.  A few past examples of this are:

  1.  Routine tonsillectomies
  2.  Treating prostate cancer in older men who have no symptoms
  3.  Aggressive treatment of DCIS in women
  4.  Most conventional treatment of Coronary Artery Disease  

A new study, just published in the Lancet gives us more evidence for #4.  This Nov 2, 2017 study examined a procedure, inserting stents to relieve stable angina, that has been a standard of care for coronary patients, and found little benefit.  Stents  are widely done, very expensive, and can  


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