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> For example, if surgeons knew their success rate were public, they would be incentivized to take easier cases. Who would take a difficult case if they knew it
by nchammas 11y ago
> For example, if surgeons knew their success rate were public, they would be incentivized to take easier cases. Who would take a difficult case if they knew it would constitute a bad mark on their record almost for sure?
Why would it be a "bad mark" if everyone understood the case was difficult? Given a difficult case, wouldn't a surgeon be graded badly only if they did poorer on average than other surgeons tackling similar cases?
As long as a case's "difficulty" is measured in a consistent way, I don't see how surgeons would be incentivized to avoid difficult cases.
- riahi 11y agoHow do you measure difficulty? It's a surprisingly hard problem.
- nchammas 11y agoGood question. Perhaps that is one of the root issues here. As a layperson, I wouldn't know how to answer it, but I'm guessing the answer probably involves more rigorously detailing the various aspects of each case so that comparisons can be fairly made across surgeons treating similar cases--apples to apples and all that.