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Health Care Under the Knife

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as Campbell’s Law: “The more any quantitative social indicator (sometimes even a qualitative indicator) is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.” — location: 579 ^ref-11987

analytics resonate powerfully with contemporary methods of disciplining, normalizing, and governing medical conduct. — location: 808 ^ref-15812

Co-workers and patients are usually the best judges. — location: 839 ^ref-55168

In England, despite having an NHS, most wealthy people also have private insurance and can jump the queue for care. In contrast, Canada’s NHI bans private insurance that duplicates the public coverage, so by and large the wealthy can’t opt out or buy their way to better or quicker care. — location: 940 ^ref-29993