Mildly apropos of this topic, I've had the same surgery (kidney stone removal, sorry for TMI) performed in both California and Arkansas. Random! Fancy my chance

Mildly apropos of this topic, I've had the same surgery (kidney stone removal, sorry for TMI) performed in both California and Arkansas. Random! Fancy my chances of seeing an article like this. The procedure in AR was much cheaper, involved less invasive and expensive procedures, and was performed every bit as competently, if not more so. When I look back at the experience, I think a lot of it came down to the sheer amount of redundancy and unnecessary procedure baked into the treatment in CA. I could speculate about the reasons why (fear of litigation being much higher in CA, for instance), though the article does a good job accounting for some of them.