I recently read that tonsillectomy’s are still occurring needlessly. Now this was common practice many years ago, in fact it seems the slight whiff of a sore throat and you got the chop.

So I was surprised to see the practice still going on, with the view that it was still a ‘needless’ intervention.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46095462

This is a link to the article.