1. Being a lecturer at Harvard does not correlate with being a skillful clinician
2. Your view of the clinical system is very skewed, and will bring you more risks than benefits.
My bias is towards surgery at a good regional hospital (Newton-Wellesley for example) with a surgeon who teaches downtown and does lots of surgeries.
What is my skew that that is bringing me more risk? I used to think all doctors were about the same. Now I realize that is about as true as all baseball players are the same. There are hall of famers as well as some who could be sent down to the minors. The trick is figuring out who is who, because other docs won’t say.
Precisely. And I assure you, as a patient you can't possibly figure out who's who. Your bias is you think you can.