Like it or not, the Surgeon Scorecard is the only game in town

If you want to know who the best surgeon in the hospital is, ask the surgical nursing staff. If you want to know who does the best job opening up coronary arteries using catheters, balloons, and stents, ask the cardiac catheterization lab nurses and technicians. Unfortunately, these approaches to comparing physicians’ skills are only available to hospital […]

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