Unnecessary Stents: How professional inertia harms patients and wastes billions of dollars

Research shows that stents for stable heart disease don’t benefit patients more than medications alone. Yet hospitals continue to perform these procedures, exposing patients to risk of harm and wasting billions of dollars. Given the clear evidence that stents aren't useful in these cases, why do clinicians continue to place them so frequently? How can we overcome the incentives that drive overuse in cardiology and in US healthcare more generally? This event was recorded on October 31, 2023.