From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernici, and this is the Daily.

A Times investigation has found that doctors are increasingly performing

unnecessary medical procedures that generate huge profits

while often harming patients.

Today, my colleague Katie Thomas,

on the forces driving this emerging and troubling trend

in American health care.

And the story of one family caught in the middle of it.

It's Monday, February 19th.

So Katie, tell me. 19th.

So Katie, tell me about this investigation. So I am a health care reporter who writes about the kind of intersection of health care and money.

And I was working with two other colleagues, Sarah Cliff and Jessica Silver Greenberg.

And together, the three of us had long been interested in are the

medical procedures and the tests and other things that we get when we go to the

doctor or into a hospital, are they always necessary?

But what we were really interested in exploring was not just are these procedures and are these

tests, etc, are they necessary, but in some situations could they actually be harmful to patients.

And so that's what we decided to try and take a look at.

And so we had gotten started in our reporting when we got a tip.

And it was from a mom in Boise, Idaho.

And her name was Lauren LaVell.

Hi.

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