The Booming Business of Cutting Babies’ Tongues

切割婴儿舌头的蓬勃发展

The Daily

2024-02-19

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A Times investigation has found that dentists and lactation consultants around the country are pushing “tongue-tie releases” on new mothers struggling to breastfeed, generating huge profits while often harming patients. Katie Thomas, an investigative health care reporter at The Times, discusses the forces driving this emerging trend in American health care and the story of one family in the middle of it.
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  • Times investigation has found that doctors are increasingly performing unnecessary medical procedures that generate huge profits while often harming patients.

  • Today, my colleague Katie Thomas on the forces driving this emerging and troubling trend in american healthcare and the story of one family caught in the middle of it.

  • It's Monday, February 19.

  • So, Katie, tell me about this investigation.

  • So I am a healthcare reporter who writes about the kind of intersection of healthcare and money.

  • And I was working with two other colleagues, Sarah Cliff and Jessica Silver Greenberg.

  • And together the three of us had long been interested in are the medical procedures and the tests and other things that we get when we go to the doctor or into a hospital, are they always necessary?

  • But what we were really interested in exploring was not just are these procedures and are these tests, et cetera, are they necessary?

  • But in some situations, could they actually be harmful to patients?

  • And so that's what we decided to try and take a look at.

  • And so we had gotten started in our reporting when we got a tip, and it was from a mom in Boise, Idaho.

  • And her name was Lauren Lovell.