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What exactly do you mean by "10x doctor"?

Some surgeons have a 10x higher 'revision rate' than others, and from what I understand, that may be an understatement. Many of the statistics which would indicate the ones to avoid are not tracked, precisely because the doctors do not want them tracked.

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doctor stats are also misleading af, since the busiest times often require the best, most reliable docs, and they also have the highest rates of fatalities

7pm-2am on friday is when all of the nasty cases come in, and the best surgeon in the world ain't gonna save many of them.

You'll have to ask the OP what they meant by 10x. I assume they meant it in the programmer/hacker sense of producing more work in the same amount of time than their peers or being a 'rockstar'

Obviously they simply mean highly talented compared to their peers.

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