The article links to a YouTube video of a lecture by the author[0]. One of the top comments contains a list of timestamps in the video where he discusses specific surgeries:

    7:55 Angina example
    10:05 Parkinson’s disease example
    13:10 Multiple sclerosis example
    14:52 emphysema example
    18:47 knee pain
    20:40 spine surgery
    21:52 Injection therapy for pain
    24:59 Explain perceived effectiveness 
    26:29 correlation vs causation
    29:33 Improvement not due surgery
    30:33 Natural history
    34:01 regression to the mean
    35:43 concomitant treatment
    39:16 perceived improvement: patient vs clinician
    41:50 therapeutic envelope
    42:38 Intervention: the placebo pill
    44:02 Building the ideal placebo
    47:02 “Why do we still operated?”
    52:00 Determining effectiveness
    52:55 Reducing error in estimating the truth
    54:55 Why we need blinded randomized trials
    55:12 Ethics and Placebo
    59:50 One possible solution
    1:00:20 Current status of placebo RCT in orthopedics
    1:00:44 Summary, questions, and comments

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzueFu1cq5U