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If I only have the following two pieces of info to eval a doctor, which is more important?

Tier B med school, but Board CertifiedTier A med school, but no Board Certification

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Robin is right that the finding that second-tier docs take more time and do more tests may be because those docs' lower status makes them more vulnerable to malpractice lawsuits. But this seems like quite a stretch. It seems much more plausible to me that the obvious interpretation is the correct one: the second-tier docs are somewhat inferior, but that inferiority takes the form of needing more time and tests to reach the same conclusion, rather than the form of reaching a different conclusion. That is, it sounds to me like the first tier docs really are better in some meaningful sense.

Retired, a big part of the reason that the Medical College of Georgia is so much cheaper than Harvard is (I assume) that the former is a public school that is heavily subsidized by the state. It's not anything like that much cheaper (though still probably a lot cheaper) when measured in the total cost per student.

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