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What do you call healthcare that doesn't work, but is commonly used anyways? For example, Propublica's article says stents usually don't help improve patients' conditions:

https://www.propublica.org/article/when-evidence-says-no-but...

I like the term 'monopoly medicine', but maybe there's a better term.

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Medicine is an applied science and as with all applied sciences, new knowledge is hard to get into practice among the older crowd.

So, while stent placement in specific cases did not improve the outcomes, getting practitioners comfortable with doing nothing takes time.

That would be a misuse of healthcare.

Just because a developer has all of the tools available, doesn't mean they can build a solid working app.

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