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December 1984 Issue
December 1984 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Ms. Buxley?
    Cullen Murphy
  • A Modern Whitman
    James Atlas
  • What’s Wrong With Congress
    Gregg Easterbrook
  • Drought
    Guy Billout
  • I. A Boring Way to Get Rich
    John D. Spooner
  • Ii. A High-Risk Numbers Game
    William Lanouette

Medicine: Marketing an Operation

Coronary-bypass surgery ,a practitioner argues, is overused, ineffective, and absurdly expensive

By Thomas A. Preston
December 1984 Issue
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