BMJ starts campaign to reduce knee arthroscopy procedures

BRITISH JOURNAL DROPS BOMB ON KNEE ARTHROSCOPY (Orthopedics This Week)
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) is conducting a campaign called “Too Much Medicine” which suggests that there is an overuse of medical procedures and that it is a threat to health and wastes resources. As part of that campaign, the journal published an editorial criticizing the number of patients who were going in for knee arthroscopy—a keyhole procedure designed to “clean out” the knee joint.
According to Jill Margo, writing for the Financial Review, the BMJ cites a new study that claims the benefits of knee arthroscopy ...