Making 'Sense' of Health Care Costs and Other Complex Challenges

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When does the pursuit of 'best practices' make sense, and when do we need to apply less precise but more effective approaches instead? This week's New Yorker has another interesting column by James Surowiecki, entitled Local Knowledge, which laments the fact that there are huge anomalies in health care in the US from community to community, a result of a combination of local customs, patient demographics, and the varying supply and accessibility of practitioners and facilities. Great variations ... (more)  

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