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Comparing Medicine’s Cost and Effectiveness

How about a cost-benefit analysis of money spent on legal services and insurance to protect everybody who does or makes something useful from being sued?

Here's the health-benefit analysis, bonehead: every individual patient seen under unique circumstances with a unique combination of clinical factors, and they received whatever treatment that was deemed best at that time, without the opportunity to do Clinical Monday Morning Quarterbacking. None of the cases is comparable to any other cases unless you make assumptions that discount the importance of multiple factors that clinicians have to take into account and that make each case unique.