tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post1278663098268445536..comments2024-01-30T03:30:45.740-05:00Comments on Bad Data, Bad!: Good hospital/Bad hospitalbs kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871717971078952304noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post-36877933123145464352012-07-14T05:57:00.550-04:002012-07-14T05:57:00.550-04:00Interesting thought.....I'll have to ponder th...Interesting thought.....I'll have to ponder that.<br /><br />Your comment made me realize though...we recently used similar logic to pick a town to buy a house in. It's definitely got some broader applications.bs kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871717971078952304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post-57268170573495414982012-07-14T05:55:13.183-04:002012-07-14T05:55:13.183-04:00The good part of the "doctor in 30 minutes th...The good part of the "doctor in 30 minutes thing" is, if used correctly, it does cut out one annoying part of the wait. Basically, what used to happen is patients could sit forever, then finally see a doctor, then find out they needed a CT/MRI/Xray before anyone could do anything else, which was a whole new set of waiting. Seeing an MD up front often does nothing more than get these tests ordered faster....which can literally cut hours off your stay. It's basically a scheme to combine wait times....but it works out pretty well for everyone. <br /><br />The other problem with best hospitals is that they tend to be centrally located, so many accident victims wind up there. We had this problem whenever big events took place in the city....get dehydrated at the fireworks display? You're certainly not driving to the suburbs!bs kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871717971078952304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post-8055025453926701892012-07-13T18:42:18.408-04:002012-07-13T18:42:18.408-04:00I forwarded this widely, and someone wrote back wo...I forwarded this widely, and someone wrote back wondering if any of this was useful for ranking churches...Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post-40615535932455557642012-07-12T11:09:05.926-04:002012-07-12T11:09:05.926-04:00And the best hospital is most likely to have a lon...And the best hospital is most likely to have a long line of customers at the door of the ER.<br /><br />While the mediocre hospitals are less likely to have such a line.<br /><br />(In my area, there is a chain of hospitals which advertise that their ER-acceptance process always includes short waits for a doctor. It's a hospital-chain connected to a med school. So I assume that they have lots of residents on-staff. And I infer that they have a rapid-triage process, with a sort into one of many second-stage waiting rooms...but I found it amusing that the billboards and radio ads would promise a max of 30 minutes before seeing a doctor.)karrdehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00205160745963596856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post-65195102253399741512012-07-11T20:42:24.324-04:002012-07-11T20:42:24.324-04:00There's constant strife over how to accurately...There's constant strife over how to accurately rank hospitals, because professionals skew hospital rankings in the direction of valuing medical uniqueness. Patients on the other hand, tend to value things like "comfort of chairs in the waiting room" nearly as high as they do "physician competence".<br /><br />Kind of like the big name universities renowned for the billions in grant money brought in by famous professors while the poor slunky undergrad student wonders why all her "professors" are first year grad students with heavy foreign accents.Sponge-headed ScienceManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12914014641719908195noreply@blogger.com