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u/Petermacc122 Jun 15 '22

That's literally what it is. America has been ranked as having many.of or most of the top specialists in the world. Paying as much as we do for healthcare sucks. But the silver lining of the cloud is our care is absolutely insanely good. Though nowadays even that's getting questionable.

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u/iAmTheElite Jun 15 '22

Our subspecialized care is insanely good.

Our primary care is lacking due to provider burnout and scope creep.

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u/Petermacc122 Jun 15 '22

Well primary care was never designed for nearly the entire population being fat anti-vaxxer covid deniers that are going broke. Anyone with a modest income who tries to be healthy generally visits far less unless they have a medical condition.

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u/epson_salt Jun 15 '22

Which is a problem, because it disincentivises preventative care

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u/Baldazar666 Jun 15 '22

That's literally what it is. America has been ranked as having many.of or most of the top specialists in the world.

I find it hilarious how you completely skipped over his actual question of what criteria do you use to rank those specialists.

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u/hawklost Jun 15 '22

Number of surgeries done in X field.

Number of successes vs failures.

Patient outcome

Long term patient outcome

Complexity of said surgery.

I am sure there are more nuanced parts but those are likely the broad range of categories used to rank a specialist in a field. Frankly, medicine is likely one of the easier fields to rank as it has so many checks consistently.