When George Lai of Portland, Oregon, took his toddler son to a pediatrician last summer for a checkup, the doctor noticed a ...

Routine procedures such as splinter removal and wart treatment are increasingly billed as surgeries, leading to unexpected ...

Minor interventions are increasingly being rebranded and billed as surgery, for profit. This means a neurologist spending 40 ...

The blizzard of surgeries-in-name-only is a symptom of a system that has long valued procedures far more than intellectual ...