Comment by jaredklewis

> At the end of the road. Patient outcome and contentedness compared to others with similar indications.

Well I would first of all remark that this doesn’t seem and to be how it’s normally done as I’ve never been asked to rate my “contentedness” or similar with my medical care.

And where is the “end of the road?” Most medical interventions could be plausibly evaluated at all manner of different intervals.

Also, “similar indications” is doing a lot of work here. Patient outcomes are often influenced more by the individual than the doctor. By the time you bucket all the patients by age, diet, activity level, smoking status, alcohol intake, metabolic health, bmi, family history, etc…buckets are going to be pretty tiny. Clinics and hospitals aren’t that big, there won’t be anything to compare. If you only bucket the most obvious categories like age, you’ll have comparisons, but it will just be noise.