The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So I have not stopped referring people to interventional cardiology. In fact, I probably haven't changed dramatically how many people get sent. Courage probably did change it a little bit, but for the most part, I'm sending the same number of people. I'm sending the same people to the cath lab as I did before Orbiton.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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give a trial medical therapy and see if you can get the symptoms better it's not an automatic take to the cath lab but try to optimize medical therapy and if you can make the symptoms go away then there's no need to go and stin that artery