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I have 10+ years of clinical experience in academic hospitals, and have worked in Boston at Brigham and Women's. From this experience, I can tell you 2 things:
by rscho 5y ago
I have 10+ years of clinical experience in academic hospitals, and have worked in Boston at Brigham and Women's. From this experience, I can tell you 2 things:
1. Being a lecturer at Harvard does not correlate with being a skillful clinician
2. Your view of the clinical system is very skewed, and will bring you more risks than benefits.
- asmithmd1 5y agoCompletely agree with point 1. There are many researchers in the area who like to also practice, that lead me to ask the # of surgeries question. My bias is towards surgery at a good regional hospital (Newton-Wellesley for example) with a surgeon who teaches downtown and does lots of surgeries. What is my skew that that is bringing me more risk? I used to think all doctors were about the same. Now I realize that is about as true as all baseball players are the same. There are hall of famers as well as some who could be sent down to the minors. The trick is figuring out who is who, because other docs won’t say.
- rscho 5y ago> The trick is figuring out who is who, because other docs won’t say Precisely. And I assure you, as a patient you can't possibly figure out who's who. Your bias is you think you can.