Coronary artery disease should be entirely preventable and medically manageable without procedures like elective stents, especially since prevention strategies like statins emerged in 1986.

“this was just when when you know prevention was blossoming you know statins came along in 86 and you know we're you know the beta blockers and and now i mean it's discontinued to blossom so that coronary disease these days even though it's the leading killer in america should be an entirely preventable medically managed disease unless you have an mi you don't need to be going in having procedures stands electively you know we have we have the tools and so it's also just the more enlightened approach”