How Measurement Fails Doctors and Teachers

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1. everything should be run

as a business and this is what happens.

Our hospital has a higher death rate than most because of the older age of our population. When my elderly friend broke her pelvis the hospital would not do surgery to ease her pain. Instead the sent her off to a nursing home so drugged she was rarely awake. The nursing home doctor saw how inhumane that was and ordered the surgery. She came through just fine.

The most important thing was that the hospital did not have another death to add to their count. It is a business after all.