presidents worth more than us? Options

[T00000]

So I recently came across this article on yahoo news. One section struck me as odd:

Several surgeons uninvolved in Clinton's care said they didn't think his doctors would risk treating him with newer, experimental approaches like robotic surgery or laparoscopy, sometimes called keyhole surgery.


"With three-vessel disease in a president, I don't think I'd be doing it," said Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood, chief of cardiovascular surgery at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., and a spokesman for the American College of Cardiology.

Does this mean that average people are less important than presidents? Or what? Because if these procedures are "dangerous" then why would it be okay to do them on other people and risk their lives more than the lives of presidents? It worries me you know... hm.

[Spirited Away]

well the thing is, they aren't testing the new procedures, it's already been tested. it's just new, so the results are kind of fickle. But i dont exactly understand your view now?

I don't understand me neither... I'm just babbling.

Um, just my original comment made sense to me, so go with that.

As for results being iffy... Do patients not have a word as to whether or not doctors will use what kind of treatment on them? The last time I went to the Doctor to test for allergies, my doctor told me the options for testing for allergies and let me choose which one I wanted to do. He didn't say "here are the options, but you must do this one"... So I don't understand what the problem is with Doctors not using the new procedures on him because he has a choice, doesn't he.


Maybe I just need to read more into the whole thing.