big mistake....the best doctors are at large academic centers like Cleveland Clinic,Michigan,Boston,Phila,SF,etc
they attract the best pathologists,radiologists,surgeons,etc
would you go to a Tenet hospital for a bone marrow transplant?
A lot of fine doctors end up in those places, and at other places, as well. Most city hospitals are going to have some excellent physicians in every specialty. I trust the efficiency and effectiveness of for profit hospitals.
But there are some procedures you're only going to get at a teaching facility (a family friend was the recipient of one of the first liver transplants when Starzl was at University of Colorado; at that time, if you were dying of liver cancer there was nowhere else to get it).
OTOH, some teaching hospitals are not where you'd want to be. In the south I would have been far more comfortable with, e.g., Baylor, than at the old Charity in New Orleans. It just depends. |
