Patients are amazing creatures. The current breed is hyperinformed on medical information and has an ever expanding reservoir of physician data to trove through. I’m not just referring to physician reviews on Angie’s list. Soon, the public will be encouraged to review our success and failure rates with respect to medical treatments, how much cash the drug companies grease us with, all disciplinary actions, comparison with peers, complication rates, medical malpractice entanglements and how much Medicare reimbursement we have received. There will be published quality benchmarks on physicians so that the public can see how their physicians scored on these various quality measurements. I have opined throughout this blog that I feel that these measurements are tantamount to taurine excrement. Sadly, reimbursement will be tied to these results with physicians who don’t rate high enough having some of their income confiscated. Physicians who don’t make the grade may game the syst
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