RT Journal
A1 Meador CK
T1 Rethinking aging: Growing old and living well in an overtreated society
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2011
FD October 26
VO 306
IS 16
SP 1804
OP 1804
DO 10.1001/jama.2011.1546
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.1546
AB 
Hadler dissects the medical literature covering clinical trials assessing a variety of interventions, procedures, screening tests, and use of pharmaceuticals. His reviews and careful analyses of the literature focus on modalities that provide little or no proven benefit to the public, especially the aging population. In particular, he presents the details of the results of trials on coronary stenting and coronary surgery. He comes to this firm statement, which he backs up with his analyses of many reported studies and clinical trials: “There is no doubt in my mind that interventional cardiology and cardiovascular surgery for coronary disease have written the bleakest chapter in the entire history of Western medicine.”