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24. How Can You Choose the Best Doctor?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Residency Programmes and the Cost Conundrum

Candas chin studied the outcomes of different residency programmes. She and her colleagues looked at medicure claims from about three thousand physicians. They found that doctors who trained in a low spending area were more likely to spend less, primitic are beneficiary want you're in practice. But those who went into high spending areas continued to practise in ways that were less costly.

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