This "news" article could or maybe should go in the "Faux Science" thread...
ABC News
SYDNEY LUPKIN
July 31, 2013
Top Hospitals Fall Flat in Contested New Report
Quote:
Consumer Reports said some of the nation's top hospitals
performed the worst when it came to patient outcomes.
Massachusetts General Hospital and the Hospital for Special Surgeries,
which are both ranked top in the nation for various specialties
by U.S. News and World Report, got the lowest Consumer Reports Rating possible: a solid black circle.
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"The problem I have with this is that teaching hospitals,
which did poorly in this report, tend to have more complicated patients,"
said Dr. Richard Besser, chief health medical editor for ABC News.
"More complicated patients will tend to be in the hospital longer.
Community hospitals, which did better in this report,
often refer their more complicated cases elsewhere."
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Remember all the "radial keratotomy" business ?
Our Medical School's Dept of Ophthalmology did not do them at all,
but instead treated all the cases with bad outcomes...
It was a very steady business.