I respect the desire to eliminate unnecessary medical procedures on dogs, but disagree that spaying and neutering is the same as cutting ears and tails for appearance sake. (jennifermargulis.net)
Finding general rules sometimes also means highlighting unrealistic promises made by researchers, maybe also in order to protect people from too many unnecessary medical procedures. (sciencemag.org)
The doctors even go so far as performing unnecessary medical procedures to bump up the settlement value of the injury. (centralnewyorkinjurylawyer.com)