Comments on the recent study suggesting that angioplasty is ineffective if performed days after a heart attack. Sometimes the evidence contradicts intuitive thinking:
The new report is the latest example of a rigorous experiment turning medical practice on its head by proving that a widely accepted treatment is not the great boon it was thought to be (except maybe to the bank accounts of doctors, drug companies and makers of medical devices).
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Maybe now we can get pain specialists to stop repeating multiple series of epidural steroid injections for failed back surgery and give people what they deserve-opioids.
I guess I won’t get imvited to this years annual dinner for The American Society Of Interventional Pain Specialists, where I hold a ‘Lifetime Membership;’after posting this statement.
See you at WENDY’S.
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