Reduction in tonsillecties and evidence based medicine

What the reduction in tonsillectomies teaches us about medicine.

This is an interesting article in the New York Times that looks at the issue of evidence based practice in medicine and relates it to tonsillectomy surgey.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/upshot/what-the-reduction-in-tonsillectomies-teaches-us-about-medicine.html?_r=0