Economics 2.0: Are more experienced Heart Surgeons better?
According Economics 2.0’s review of Huckman and Pisano (2006): WIth each additional operation the surgeon preforms in a clinic, the mortality factor of his or her patients there drops by 0.018 percentage points. When that doctor performs an operation in another clinic during the same three-month period, patients’ death rates decline by only 0.001. Few heart surgeons are…