Point, Counterpoint, Rebuttal
Saturday, November 27, 2021
American medicine has a history of embracing novel technology scientific discipline starting fourth dimension together with asking questions later, doc Lotan says. "Our wellness attention organization is inwards fiscal distress, together with it's of import to empathise why. Doctors are removing gallbladders robotically, together with it makes no fiscal sense. At around betoken equally a society, nosotros direct keep to say, We're spending this money, together with what are nosotros getting?'"
With robotic surgery, the answer may come upward equally good belatedly to matter, he says. No 1 is going back. "Maybe amongst the side yesteryear side technology scientific discipline nosotros volition evaluate the cost-effectiveness prior to adoption."
The folks at Intuitive Surgery didn't similar it, together with the senior vice president for scientific affairs wrote a letter complaining. The lede:
Laura Beil makes a fault mutual to journalists eager to write an eye-catching story: She chooses the facts that gibe her narrative together with ignores those that don't.
MH editor Peter Moore replied here. The summary:
We pride ourselves on the accuracy of our reporting at Men's Health, together with hence nosotros took Intuitive's asking for corrections rattling seriously. After an internal investigation—with the cooperation of Laura Beil together with our enquiry team, led yesteryear Jaclyn Colletti—we stand upward behind the article inwards it's entirety, equally published.
Read for yourself together with come across who's most persuasive.