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24. How Can You Choose the Best Doctor?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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How Much Health Care Do You Spend?

The difference in health care spending among doctors who trained in high spenning regions and those who trained in low spenning areas is 522 dollars per patient. That figure controls for other factors that could otherwise affect how much health care a patient gets, like their age, sex, race or ethenicity. Where you train will then influence so many potentially different communities as physicians move around the country and locate in different areas. It affects our overall health cure spending.

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