On: Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoi...

[dredmorbius]

There's a very strong relationship between experience (number of procs performed) and outcomes. High-volume is almost always beetter.

This may of course favour unnecessary ops...)

[stevenwoo → dredmorbius]

Yes, I think this was particularly against the grain because mothers are commonly told to look for a doctor/practice who does not resort to a C-section right away, and judge this by the number of C-sections a doctor/practice performs.

[dredmorbius → stevenwoo]

Hospital rather than doc rates are far more useful here.

Look to c-sec vs. vag deliveries.