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One in Three Heart Surgeons Refuse Difficult Operations to Avoid Poor Mortality Ratings, Survey Shows [1]

Submitted by ctsnetstaff [2] on Wed, 2016-06-22 13:36

In his new book The Naked Surgeon: The Power and Peril of Transparency in Medicine [3], Samer Nashef [4] of Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK reports that of the 115 specialists surveyed, 30% said that they had recommended non-surgical treatment to high risk patients to avoid a poor mortality rating. 

Source name: 
The Telegraph
Resource link: 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/06/03/one-in-three-heart-surgeons-refuse… [5]
Subspecialty(ies): 
Cardiac [6]
Author(s): 
Sarah Knapton
Source URL:https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/one-three-heart-surgeons-refuse-difficult-operations-avoid-poor-mortality-ratings-survey-shows

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[1] https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/one-three-heart-surgeons-refuse-difficult-operations-avoid-poor-mortality-ratings-survey-shows [2] https://www.ctsnet.org/home/ctsnetstaff [3] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Naked-Surgeon-power-transparency-medicine/dp/1922247936 [4] https://www.ctsnet.org/home/snashef [5] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/06/03/one-in-three-heart-surgeons-refuse-difficult-operations-to-avoid/ [6] https://www.ctsnet.org/categories/cardiac