For decades, the raw truth about surgical outcomes has lived behind closed doors. Patients have never had access to it, and even primary care physicians making critical referrals have been forced to rely on personal relationships and intuition. But the era of choosing a specialist based on a friend-of-a-friend recommendation or a 5-star Google review is coming to an end. Procedure-specific data is moving directly into the hands of the consumer, and the medical profession must get ready to meet a patient who already knows their numbers.
In this featured guest article originally published on KevinMD, SurgeonCheck founder Dr. Marc Granson draws on his 35 years as a practicing vascular surgeon and 13 years as a healthcare system Chairman of Surgery to confront the transparency revolution head-on. He dismantles the common industry defense that “the data isn’t perfect,” arguing that imperfect data is infinitely safer for families than the current status quo of no data at all. Read the full piece to see why Dr. Granson believes outcomes transparency is uncomfortable but long overdue, and why physicians must actively help shape this new reality rather than pretending it isn’t coming.
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