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24. How Can You Choose the Best Doctor?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Is the Supply of Specialists Driving the Demand?

The jury is still out on why areas with more specialists have greater health care spending. What you need to answer this question is a clever natural experiment that leads some areas to have, by chance, more specialists than others. Maybe you're worried about whether your doctor trained in the us or went to school in another country. My mamma's a doctor. She trained in india. And growing up, she used to always tell me, in a motherly indian accent that a good doctor didn't need lavs,. They didn't need imaging, they just needed to know a patient ory.

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