BOSTON — I’m at the New America Foundation conference on how to avoid avoidable care, and things here are getting grim
It
turns out we’re in the middle of an epidemic — a tonsillectomy
epidemic, to be more specific. Tonsillectomies are the most common
procedure, for children, requiring anesthesia. And we’re doing more of
them: The number of tonsillectomies performed spiked by 74 percent between 1996 and 2006.
In 2006 alone, more than a half-million children in the United States
got their tonsils removed. The only problem is there’s no evidence they
work for most children.
Read the whole story at the Washington Post
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