Fresh, vibrant, nutrient rich, all natural sugary tree water – the very thought of it made me drool with anticipation. I have been itching to try tapping Birch for a good few years now but could never get past the worry of potentially hurting the tree. After all, I live in a land of plentiful food supplies and numerous food shops – tapping Birch trees and risking their demise feels like a total indulgence. Pretty much all the info on tapping Birch involves drilling a hole into the trunk, fitting a hollow spout of some sort, placing a collecting container
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US healthcare quality is poor because…
Consumers don’t care.
Yesterday we dove into the disconnect between patient satisfaction (my nurse was sooo nice and my room…wow!) and quality of care (how likely was I to die).
Today, we focus on how this affects our healthcare. Or, as the researchers put it;
In an era of management by satisfaction survey, how does hospital competition shape the kind of medical services offered to patients?
Leaving out the coefficients, standardized deviations, null estimates and other researchers’ esoterica, we find:
Local competition among hospitals leads to higher patient satisfaction, but lower medical quality.
Yep, because we consumers value quiet