Re:Surgeon Atul Gawande selected as CEO of new health care c...
by prepend on Thursday June 21, 2018 @12:55PM
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So what’s your point? Should no one try to differentiate good surgeons or bad unless they are their peer for years?
There’s lots of crappy programmers with good reputations too. But it’s a weird reply to “he’s a top tier surgeon” that you say it’s unknowable.
I’m sure you’re right, I’m not a surgeon so I have no idea how to evaluate a good surgeon, but there must be some way to qualify the poor ones from the great ones.
Your anecdote is a great example of high reputation, low skill. But is that the only instance. Is it 10%? Are most board certified, practice for 20 years surgeons good or bad? What’s the actionable intelligence, but it seems like the conversation ends with “it’s unknowable.”
I am sort of aware of quality measurement, but not a healthcare practitioner, but I’ve noticed this comment from lots of docs that the only way to know if medicine is good or bad is to have a doctor review it.
There’s lots of crappy programmers with good reputations too. But it’s a weird reply to “he’s a top tier surgeon” that you say it’s unknowable.
I’m sure you’re right, I’m not a surgeon so I have no idea how to evaluate a good surgeon, but there must be some way to qualify the poor ones from the great ones.
Your anecdote is a great example of high reputation, low skill. But is that the only instance. Is it 10%? Are most board certified, practice for 20 years surgeons good or bad? What’s the actionable intelligence, but it seems like the conversation ends with “it’s unknowable.”
I am sort of aware of quality measurement, but not a healthcare practitioner, but I’ve noticed this comment from lots of docs that the only way to know if medicine is good or bad is to have a doctor review it.