Hits & Misses – 2009/02/02

By Filed under Interesting Links on February 2, 2009 with 3 comments

Hospital

Two-thirds of all surgeries are “drive thru.”

Kidney donors live just as long as others. (Hat tip to Tyler Cowen.)

Hospital patients rarely know their doctors’ names.

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  1. Larry C. says:
    February 3, 2009 at 10:04 am

    Interesting pairing. The last post suggests patients should carefully shop before buying. The penultimate post suggests they are not doing that.

  2. Bret says:
    February 3, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    What can you say, Larry? Some people like to play Russian roulette.

  3. Bruce says:
    February 4, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    The problem starts with the doctors. They should be telling their patients about differences in hospital mortality rates. In fact I think I saw an earlier post here arguing that they were ethically obligated to pass along such information.