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so, this margin for dialing back treatment intensity is pretty inflexible in practice, and not for crazy reasons
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expanding on this general theme to the rest of the hospital, my friend observed that brute economics come into play here too hospitals apparently used to be very comfortable places. you could ask nurses to give you a massage. but economic pressures have degraded this
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insurance companies and government (medicare, VA, whatever) are paying specifically for treatments or perhaps outcomes that are easy to measure typically the consumer (patient) is not
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so you have a sort of multitask problem where "nice experience" is ruthlessly selected against because it is difficult to measure compared to (eg) patient survival, and so not a good goal metric for (eg) public health officials
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anyway much to think about, very interesting problem massive thanks to anonymous doctor who dropped all of this on me, you know who you are king
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