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OftenBen  ·  3431 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Bell Curve

    Yeah, I'm sure it'll really help the lower end doctors to apply more pressure and stress to them, in the form of increased legal risk, and pay cuts. Very motivating. Give me a break.

Yeah that part I don't like, but I don't have much of an alternative beyond some kind of massive overhaul of our medical education system as a whole, where under-performing physicians have to apprentice at high-performance centers to maintain their license.





CrazyEyeJoe  ·  3431 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think the way to go is to draw knowledge from the best performing clinics, and try to apply it at the others. Sending underperforming doctors to better clinics to learn seems like a reasonable approach.

OftenBen  ·  3431 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Sending underperforming doctors to better clinics to learn seems like a reasonable approach.

I wish it were that easy. There's a surprising amount of dogma in modern medicine, and part of that dogma is a reasonable hesitance to use techniques that don't have rigorous evidence supporting their efficacy.