Stent versus Bypass

Tonight, on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, in a story entitled “Medical Matters of the Heart” Robert Bazell reported on a new study of 8,000 patients which determined that bypass surgery is better than the stent procedure for avoiding the recurrence of a heart attack.

Now they tell me.

On the other hand, the story goes on to say that the difference is only 2%. That doesn’t sound like much of difference, and for that matter, much of a story to me.