The Stent S**m
Jun 6, 2019 14:00:00 #
The title to the video attached is "The US Medical Industrial S**m Complex", but it deals in large part with the issue of the effectiveness or lack thereof of stents.
The author of the video refers quite frequently to a 2010 article entitled "A Simple Health-Care Fix Fizzles Out" which is linked below the video.
One of the quotes in the article stated the following' "The study, known as "Courage" and published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007, shook the world of cardiology. It found that the most common heart surgery—a $15,000 procedure that unclogs arteries using a small scaffold or stent—usually yields no additional benefit when used with a cocktail of generic drugs in patients suffering from chronic chest pain. The Courage trial was led by William Boden, a Buffalo, N.Y., cardiologist, and funded largely by the Department of Veterans Affairs. It tracked 2,287 patients for five years and found that trying drugs first, and adding stents only if chest pain persisted, didn't affect the rate of deaths and heart attacks, although stents did produce quicker pain relief."
Listen to the video for all of the conflicts of interests, and self-serving actions on the part of cardiologists, health insurance companies, and stent manufacturers.
https://youtu.be/wHyV_QndiJk?t=316
https://www.buffalo.edu/content/dam/www/news/imported/pdf/February10/WSJStenting.pdf
The author of the video refers quite frequently to a 2010 article entitled "A Simple Health-Care Fix Fizzles Out" which is linked below the video.
One of the quotes in the article stated the following' "The study, known as "Courage" and published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007, shook the world of cardiology. It found that the most common heart surgery—a $15,000 procedure that unclogs arteries using a small scaffold or stent—usually yields no additional benefit when used with a cocktail of generic drugs in patients suffering from chronic chest pain. The Courage trial was led by William Boden, a Buffalo, N.Y., cardiologist, and funded largely by the Department of Veterans Affairs. It tracked 2,287 patients for five years and found that trying drugs first, and adding stents only if chest pain persisted, didn't affect the rate of deaths and heart attacks, although stents did produce quicker pain relief."
Listen to the video for all of the conflicts of interests, and self-serving actions on the part of cardiologists, health insurance companies, and stent manufacturers.
https://youtu.be/wHyV_QndiJk?t=316
https://www.buffalo.edu/content/dam/www/news/imported/pdf/February10/WSJStenting.pdf
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