Good evening buckles-ga,
The article you are looking for is titled, "A knife in the back; Is
surgery the best approach to chronic back pain?"
The author is Jerome Groopman and it appears in the April 8, 2002
issue of The New Yorker on page 66.
The article is 5339 words and here is the first paragraph:
"Surgeons have often touted procedures that ultimately proved to be
disappointing. In the nineteen-fifties, many patients with angina and
coronary-artery disease had an operation that involved tying off an
artery that runs under the sternum. The idea was that it would
increase the flow of blood to a heart that was being starved of its
normal supply. Then, at the end of the decade, a clinical trial
demonstrated that patients who underwent a sham operation did just as
well as those who had the real one; the placebo effect apparently
accounted for the fact that so many patients felt better afterward."
To get a complete copy of this article, you should probably head to
your local public library and get a photocopy. If your local public
library does not have the New Yorker, perhaps a community college or
university in your area could help. You could also ask at your public
library if they could get the article for you through inter-library
loan.
I found this article by using nexis.com, a subscription based service
to news and law articles.
Unfortunately, the New Yorker web site does not provide an archive of
its articles online.
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