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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: skinowski who wrote (7228)	6/28/2009 2:26:26 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

"Stents don't work" makes a catchy headline, but the comparison was apparently between different types of intervention - between angioplasty, angio with stenting, and CABG surgery - NOT between stenting and doing nothing. Just guessing, but this is probably like an amateur reading a section out of the US Code and trying to apply it to their own situation -- very dangerous business, and without an appropriate legal background the reader of such material will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion. I suppose this is at least one reason we need physicians. On the statins issue, I googled it and literally couldn't make any sense out of it. Studies seem all over the place. I wonder whether that is yet another case of the media picking up a story and running with it when they don't understand it any better than the rest of us.