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by saint_fiasco 3034 days ago
Add a regulation that says every hospital must publish anonimized aggregated patient outcomes. Remove as many other regulations as it would take for them to be willing to compromise and accept this one.
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Good reason to shy away care for bad patients if it affects your stats.

Surgeons do this today to maintain a high success rate.

Either make that count as a forfeit or hire specialized diagnosticians who make the prognosis and rate the surgeons on how well they do relative to the prognosis.