It is a rare occasion nowadays when academic journals treat us to an editorial debate of some substance. The staff at the Journal of the American College of Cardiology can be applauded for publishing last summer two articles representing fundamentally opposed viewpoints on the best strategy to avoid cardiovascular illness. Amusingly, both claimed in the title of their piece the distinction of promoting a "rational approach" for the reduction ...
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The New York Times recently published an opinion editorial entitled "Squandering Medicare’s Money"in which Dr. Rita Redberg, professor of cardiology at UCSF, proposes that much of Medicare’s financial deficit could be reduced if the government did not spend "a fortune each year on procedures that have no proven benefit."
To support her contention, Redberg cites several studies which indicate that many routinely performed tests and treatments ...
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