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Re:Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of ... by rscho on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:13PM (#31671717)
> I assume the general silent belief would be that your guy with the spectacular failure is some kind of "take the tough cases" dude?

No, the silent belief is that he's the worst surgeon we have.

> they shut down the procedure in the remote hospitals and centralized it in a few (3?) tertiary healthcare centres. Do you recall something like that?

That's become an extremely common strategy for specialized surgery throughout Europe.

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Re:Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of ... by renewiltord on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:19PM (#31672615)
> No, the silent belief is that he's the worst surgeon we have.

Haha, classic! I love it! I was honestly a little worried of offending you if he was a friend.

> That's become an extremely common strategy for specialized surgery throughout Europe.

There we go. Fine, I'll just go look it up.

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