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On High Volume Gynecologic Surgery, and How to Pick A Surgeon for Your Hysterectomy
If you had a serious issue with your knee and needed a surgeon to repair it, how would go about picking that surgeon? If you were like most people, you would find the most experienced and best surgeon in your area, at least within whatever in
surance network you might belong to. And that would make sense, as the experience level of your surgeon is a strong predictor of outcomes, including complications of surgery.
So you would assume that this would be similar for all types of surgery, correct? People of reasonable means will seek out the best and most experienced surgeon for whatever type of surgery they need, whether it be neurosurgery, bowel surgery, or in this case, gynecologic surgery.
The troubling thing is that in the case of gynecologic surgery, that would be wrong. In fact, the majority of gynecologic surgery in this country is performed by relatively inexperienced surgeons who research would suggest will have a higher rate of complications than more experienced surgeons.
Academic OB/GYN 