Surgery

Reports outline surgery study findings from Oregon Health & Science University

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, September 4th, 2008

" Tom Friedman, in his book,''The World is Flat,'' makes a very persuasive argument that our current economic policy transcends national boundaries. Friedman describes various processes that prove his point," researchers in the United States report.

"These include workflow software, open sourcing, outsourcing, off-shoring, supply chaining, in-sourcing, and informing. The United States already outsources surgery. In this article, I give the retail surgical rates and discount rates of the US, and compare them to that of the same surgery in India, Thailand, and Singapore. Supply chaining is another example that applies to the field of medicine, particularly...

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