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Hospital mortality rates in each department are also lowest when there's a conference for that specialty nearby. The doctors all go there, few/no routine surgeries are done that day, far fewer people die.
Isn't that because a surgery, if it fails, will result in the patient dying immediately, rather than some random time later? If you do more surgeries, you will increase both the failed and the successful surgeries, whether your success rate is 10 or 90 percent. Compare: "bomb explosions tend to increase around the time when we send in the bomb squad. I guess bomb defusing is pointless." IOW: Surgeries and bomb defusi…
Expert surgeons, in their eyes the cure for every common cold is 'surgery', like we used to say in UNIX, "If your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"
A few years ago, in Bend, Oregon at the only Hospital they had the high rate of un-needed back surgery's in the country, upon close inspection it was because all the high-paid back surgeons chose to live there, just about everybody who went to 'st-charles' for anything left dead or in debt from 'back surgery'. The insurance company's finally put an end to it, but it took over ten years, as the AMA also owns the legislature in Salem-OR ( capital of state ).
In summary NEVER go to a doctor, you will die, and if they talk surgery, run like hell.