It's usually that people think excellent doctors only want to practice at the biggest research facilities, but most
patients don't want to be a lab rat with students, 1st year interns, residents, and sub-specialists in training poking them and "looking for zebras" round the clock.
Most doctors want to work with
people, not petri dishes, test tubes, and window-less rooms full of computers. Personally, I've never liked being presented to a group of white coats, as a specimen looking half-dead and not having had my hair washed in a week or more, unless I have something rare that requires the researchers.
Looking at the largest med centers in the U.S. here, Florida is very well represented. There are good doctors here in TV-Leesburg Area, too. Bigger
hospital does not mean better doctors
actually treating patients.
1. New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center (New York City) 2,259
2. Florida Hospital Orlando 2,242
3. Jackson Memorial Hospital (Miami) 1,732
4. Methodist Hospital (San Antonio) 1,585
5. UPMC Presbyterian (Pittsburgh) 1,583
6. Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital 1,552
7. Orlando (Fla.) Regional Medical Center 1,510
8. Montefiore Hospital-Moses Campus (Bronx, N.Y.) 1,438
9. Baptist Medical Center (San Antonio) 1,422
10. Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital (Indianapolis) 1,372
11. Methodist University Hospital (Memphis, Tenn.) 1,367
12. Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis) 1,335
13. Norton Hospital (Louisville, Ky.) 1,295
14. The Cleveland Clinic 1,277
15. The Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York City) 1,221
16. Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital (Houston) 1,176
17. Buffalo (N.Y.) General Hospital 1,159
18. UAB Hospital (Birmingham, Ala.) 1,118
19. North Shore University Hospital (Manhasset, N.Y.) 1,076
20. Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak (Mich.) 1,070
21. Christiana Hospital (Newark, Del.) 1,064
22. Memorial Regional Hospital (Hollywood, Fla.) 1,037
23. Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center (New York City) 1,011
24. Saint Joseph's Hospital (Tampa, Fla.) 1,006
25. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston) 999
26. Butterworth Hospital (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 998
27. Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus) - 978
27. The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore) 978
100 largest hospitals in America