Direct measures of physician performance are hard to come by. There is no nationally standardized system for routine measurement of outcomes of physicians’ treatments. An indirect measure of incompetence is malpractice claims, but only claims that result in a payment to the patient are recorded, ab...
His mom wrote this letter to the editor of the New York Times in response to a physician suicide article last month. You may recall the article about the two young doctors — interns who jumped to their deaths in late August from their Manhattan hospitals....