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hugh3 on Oct 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Biographer: Jobs refused early and potentially lif...

Forget clinics, but surely the best surgeons have far higher success rates than the worst?

aheilbut on Oct 20, 2011 [–]

The best surgeons often work with more of the most complex cases, which makes it difficult to naively compare death rates.

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