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I don't know about GPs, but for surgeons I believe it's not so clear cut (pun not intended). From what I understand bad outcomes in surgery often take a while to manifest - but more importantly, it seems that even when they do, and get tracked in the medical record, not much is done about it either way. I recall reading an article a while back about investigations showing there's a wide disparity in outcomes among surgeons, but not much is done about it, and there's no way for patients to get access to this data. This was several years ago, though, so maybe things have changed since then.