https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-indias-no-frills-hosp...
So like a 2000 bed hospital just for heart surgeries. Like you're saying, the more a heart surgeon specializes, the better they are at it and the cheaper they can do it. Better Outcomes for less money.
> Like you're saying, the more a heart surgeon specializes, the better they are at it and the cheaper they can do it. Better Outcomes for less money.
Not necessarily.
1. A heart surgeon is going to be doing heart surgery at more or less the same frequency regardless of whether the hospital they're at handles only heart patients or not. Wouldn't they?
2. I doubt if anybody here considers them cheap. Yes it's probably cheaper than in the US, but still it's rather expensive. But then again, since life is priceless, ...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthcare-quality-surger...
Maybe cheap is the wrong term, but less expensive? I mean $800 may be expensive but certainly it's better than more?
About the cheapness aspect, what I've seen in India is that if a hospital specializes in a specific type of treatment, there's a good chance it is going to be expensive. Unless it's run by the government or something. But a lot of super-speciality hospitals near me are private hospitals.
A lot of it has to do with size and the complexity that goes along with it. So, as hospitals get bigger, do more, and increase in size and complexity these issues become worse.
The economics math even mirrors factories... a factory that can build 100 things compared to one that just produces one thing.
The book was enlightening, even though many of the time frames called out in the book were wrong. Disrupting medicine is a lot harder than something like technology.