I just swapped whose argument? Look at the names of the posters in this thread...

In any case the original article was about a woman who went through a nightmare to get a hospital to not perform unwanted, unneeded and dangerous spinal surgery. So to my eyes I was bringing the discussion back to the example under discussion. And pointing out that it has been well known for over a decade that spinal surgery is a generally bad idea to me underscores the horror of what happened to her.