Are there Illuminati doctors? Like if you have a billion dollars can you get a better doctor that is more efficient at figuring out your shit?
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No, based on my data points of super rich people seeking care. They just get a lot more of the 5-star luxury side care. They can access expensive and bleeding edge therapies including illegal ones, but they don’t work well enough to be called Illuminati med
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My biggest frustration is the amount of time it can take to get a proper diagnosis for something. Can be weeks of getting routed between different doctors before you can even begin treating something.
Have dealt with this for various sports injuries, infections, etc.
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Ah yes, there’s no Illuminati doctors but there are Illuminati Skip the Line passes
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Not good enough for illuminati. I want a smarter, more efficient, more incentivized doctor who is going to fix my shit fast.
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The top 1% of every field can typically charge more for better performance. But seemingly not true for doctors. I want, e.g., the Federer of dermatologists to get me right ASAP. And if I were a billionaire, I’d be ready to pay up.
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I don’t know that such outlier performance can exist in medicine. It’s not a field of prodigies and genuises. The House show painted a convincing portrait of a type of savant doctor who doesn’t exist.
find this incredibly hard to believe - medicine has a lot of art to it, and the more "art" the larger variance in individual performance?
I'd expect a genius doctor to be 1000x better than a good one.
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I don’t agree. “Art” as such is a negative indicator. Outlier performance happens when there is a talent factor within highly legible objective performance criteria that can statistically learned. Like music or sports. Even fine art arguably has no prodigies, only “greats.”
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That’s probably true but I do think maybe motivation and focus could get you outlier outcomes in a different economic / pricing arrangement.
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Asked a friend - who worked for medtech startup whose explicit goal it is to make it easy to choose healthcare - which hospital was the best to a get a certain (routine) knee surgery
His response: ‘they don’t even know the answer to that themselves’
The data just isn’t there
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