[Pierre]

Kidney stones would no longer be removed in an operating theatre and instead would be treated with sound wave therapy to reduce the pain.

What’s wrong with that?

It would also see patients told to use physiotherapy or painkillers to dull the pain of an arthritic knee rather than undergo an exploratory surgery

I would have always thought that surgery be the last resort anyway?

similarly, in future adenoids would not be removed because evidence now shows that it “is not necessary, doesn’t work well and can cause problems like bleeding and infection”

Evidence is evidence.

I’m just going off the article but it seems from those examples to be completely rational.