Expert Response on Recent Placebo Study February 5, 2014Filed Under: Arthroscopy, Dr. Randall Schultz, NEJM, New England Journal of Medicine, texas orthopedics The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a Finnish study that found arthroscopic surgery for degenerative meniscal cartilage tears in the knee produced a similar result as a sham (fake) surgery. With nearly 700,000 of these surgeries conducted …