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24. How Can You Choose the Best Doctor?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The Difference Between Best and Worst Residency Programmes

Residency programmes that were in the worst performing quintal had a complication rate of 13 point six %. The patients who were cared for by obsitricians who trained in the programmes with the highest quality had a complication rates of ten point three%. So how do we know that the benefit of attending a top residency programme came from the education or training that doctors received during their time there? Maybe the best medical students all gravitate to the same programms. In that case, the lower complication rates that their obsertritions have later on is simply due to the doctor's own smarts, not thing specific about how they were trained.

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