[HN Gopher] The Story of Stent
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       The Story of Stent
        
       Author : rmason
       Score  : 62 points
       Date   : 2024-12-29 22:09 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | tptacek wrote:
       | An interesting chaser to this is the centrality of stents in
       | discussions of provider-side abuses in the US health care system:
       | I'm sure stents save a lot of lives, but there's broad agreement
       | that they're also _significantly_ overprescribed. Ironically, one
       | of the things the US health care system does with extraordinary
       | effectiveness --- making it quicker and more efficient to deliver
       | services, in this case by placing stents in outpatient procedures
       | --- also makes it easy for them to drive costs.
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       | None of this has anything to do with Malik's own story! I'm glad
       | for his experience with our system, one I'm increasingly mindful
       | of as I'm just a decade or so behind him.
       | 
       | https://lowninstitute.org/the-prevalence-and-harm-of-unneces...
        
       | Brajeshwar wrote:
       | I remember when I got into the world of startups and businesses.
       | GigaOm.com was a big deal.
       | 
       | A Silicon Valley Startup acquired my service company. We were
       | told a whole lot of new terms, including but not limited to the
       | Bus Factor, not to ride the Mumbai-Pune expressway with all the
       | founding team in one car, etc. Om's news was all over the
       | Internet then, and suddenly, we were scared of the life of
       | Startup stress.
       | 
       | Around that time, Om wrote about our launch[1] in a snippet,
       | among many other web 2.0 launches. This was also the time when Om
       | and a few others wrote about a blog post that knocked off $4
       | billion off Apple's Market Cap.
       | 
       | https://brajeshwar.com/2007/mixercast-the-cat-is-already-sho...
        
       | ggm wrote:
       | My FIL was stented and dead a week later from a massive clot
       | which migrated post stent and blew his mind to pieces. It wasn't
       | a good end. Stents are great and stents are also risky. It's the
       | least worst choice sometimes.
       | 
       | Good to have a great outcome like this, happy 17th stent
       | birthday.
        
         | apwell23 wrote:
         | What would've been the alternative to stent in your FILs case?
        
       | indus wrote:
       | I met him for the first time outside Kresge---that was YC's first
       | startup school (or demo day?). He was smoking 555. He had just
       | finished his on stage session where he used flash cards instead
       | of slides.
        
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