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		<title>When to just say no</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2011/06/10/when-to-just-say-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three cheers for the primary care physicians who answered the call to identify the most useless treatments and tests routinely administered by their peers. If you want to protect yourself from unnecessary and often risky medical care, check out the list below. It will help you recognize the circumstances when it is entirely appropriate to just say “no” to your doctor.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=8101&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Angioplasty Overuse and Bill Clinton</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Clinton’s recent treatment for “chest discomfort” focussed the public’s attention for at least a week on the nation’s most frequently performed (i.e., overused) heart procedure---angioplasty. Yes, propping open a clogged artery with stents will immediately stop the discomfort, as the former president noted in interviews.  It’s faster than drugs and the death rate from the procedure itself is low (<a href="http://www.health.state.ny.us/statistics/diseases/cardiovascular/docs/pci_2004-2006.pdf">well under 1% in New York</a>, a state with publicly available per-doctor mortality statistics for angioplasty). The average cost is $15,000. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=4474&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heart surgery 2nd opinion center</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/09/22/second-opinion-cardiovascular-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Graboys, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, first came to our attention in 1992 when he co-authored a seminal study showing that angioplasty can be safely deferred in many people who have been told that the procedure is urgently needed.  This and many other studies he co-authored over the years led him to recommend a second opinion when a cardiac catheterization is advised because this diagnostic procedure puts people on the proverbial conveyer belt to having an angioplasty or coronary bypass surgery. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=3210&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Most Recent New York State Reports on Cardiac Surgery Outcomes</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/07/01/most-recent-new-york-state-report-on-cardiac-surgery-outcomes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI) in New York State The per-hospital, per-surgeon rate of PCI, aka angioplasty, coronary-artery-opening procedures, performed in New York State hospitals from 2005 through 2007. Read latest report as of April 2010. Adult Cardiac Surgery in New York State The per-hospital, per surgeon rate of coronary artery bypass graft surgery and cardiac [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1248&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drug-Coated Stent No Riskier Than Bare-Metal Stent, But…</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/06/01/drug-coated-stent-no-riskier-than-bare-metal-stent-but%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drug-coated stents, intended to keep coronary arteries from closing up again, have been under suspicion for causing harm to people years after they had an artery-opening procedure. In earlier studies, the powerful drugs used to coat the tiny wire-mesh cylinders known as stents, were linked to a slightly higher rate of death and potentially fatal blood clots. A new study of Swedish people who were implanted with either a bare-metal stent or a drug-coated stent appears to exonerate the latter.

While this is good news for people who already had a drug-coated stent implanted, it should not distract from the fact that too many Americans continue to undergo artery-opening procedures for non-emergency heart conditions that can be just as successfully treated with drugs alone.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2312&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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