And together, the three of us had long been interested in, are the medical procedures and the tests and other things that we get when we go to the doctor or into a hospital - are they always necessary?īut what we were really interested in exploring was not just are these procedures and are these tests, et cetera - are they necessary, but in some situations, could they actually be harmful to patients? And so that’s what we decided to try and take a look at. And I was working with two other colleagues, Sarah Kliff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg. So I am a health care reporter who writes about the kind of intersection of health care and money. So Katie, tell me about this investigation. Today, my colleague Katie Thomas - on the forces driving this emerging and troubling trend in American health care and the story of one family caught in the middle of it. sabrina taverniseįrom “The New York Times,” I’m Sabrina Tavernise, and this is “The Daily.”Ī “Times” investigation has found that doctors are increasingly performing unnecessary medical procedures that generate huge profits while often harming patients. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email with any questions. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. This transcript was created using speech recognition software. Transcript The Booming Business of Cutting Babies’ Tongues One family’s story of “tongue-tie release” surgery on their newborn.
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