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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: i-node who wrote (7215)6/26/2009 6:33:36 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
If a cardiologist knows that stents work well in a given situation I really can't blame them for wanting to wait -- years if necessary -- until all the facts are in.

Wonderful example. Cardiologists typically wait until you need a stent before they intervene meaningfully in coronary artery disease. If you don't need one yet, then your problem is not actionable by their way of thinking. Could that be because installing stents is more profitable than, say, making diet recommendations? Or that lesser interventions are not worthy of their great education, skill, expertise, and perceived role in the world? Or because the stent business is so good and the peer pressure is so strong that they never stop and consider the viability of investigate less extreme interventions?
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