Comments on: Medicine and Moneyball http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/medicine-and-moneyball.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/medicine-and-moneyball.html#comment-87776 Anonymous Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:49:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/10/medicine-and-moneyball.html#comment-87776 Just send those difficult patients for whom the protocol is unsatisfactory to the Comparative Effective Institute for treatment and make your life easier. Either their brilliance is as superior as they think and they will find the right solution or they will be humbled and be more circumspect about issuing edicts. The former is a win for the patient, the latter a win for the profession and patients, and you win regardless. Just send those difficult patients for whom the protocol is unsatisfactory to the Comparative Effective Institute for treatment and make your life easier. Either their brilliance is as superior as they think and they will find the right solution or they will be humbled and be more circumspect about issuing edicts. The former is a win for the patient, the latter a win for the profession and patients, and you win regardless.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/medicine-and-moneyball.html#comment-87748 Anonymous Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:57:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/10/medicine-and-moneyball.html#comment-87748 Most patients eventually won't have a choice whether or not to accept rationing. We're running out of money and something will have to give.<br/><br/>This seems like a reasonable effort but I doubt they'll be able to get valid stats for situations I encounter daily in family medicine. One reason statheads like baseball is that it's not as difficult to isolate individual contributions, at least on offense. The complexity of the mixture of various ailments makes baseball stats look simple. Most patients eventually won’t have a choice whether or not to accept rationing. We’re running out of money and something will have to give.

This seems like a reasonable effort but I doubt they’ll be able to get valid stats for situations I encounter daily in family medicine. One reason statheads like baseball is that it’s not as difficult to isolate individual contributions, at least on offense. The complexity of the mixture of various ailments makes baseball stats look simple.

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