Dartmouth’s study on the number of physicians required to treat Americans includes an observation which bears directly on the USNews report on the nation’s best hospitals. One of the top ten, the Mayo Clinic,needs one-third as many physicians to treat patients in the last six months of life as an unranked facility, New York University Medical Center (also a teaching institution).
That being the case, it is clear that being the best does not require having a lot of docs. And that has significant implications for the type and volume of procedures performed and the cost of care.
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