Study: Patients are driving more surgery, not Surgeons

STUDY: PATIENTS, NOT SURGEONS, DRIVING DEMAND FOR SURGERY (Orthopedics This Week)
 Study: Patients Want MORE Surgery
According to a new study, it’s not the doctors that are pushing for surgeries. It’s the patients! Chad Mather, M.D., an attending orthopedic surgeon at Duke University, and a former AAOS [American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons] Washington Health Policy Fellow, tells OTW, “We are working on an exciting new area of study in the field of personalized and customized medicine. This is an effort that grew out of my policy work in traditional economic analysis which commonly compares...