The American College of Cardiology is changing its guidelines for when implanting coronary stents is appropriate—by banishing the term “inappropriate.” Next year, the main U.S. heart-doctor group will remove the word it has used since 2009 to describe cases where people don't need the metal-mesh tubes in their blood vessels.
Doctors use euphemism for needless stents
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