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Originally Posted by biker1
I have never been a believer in such blanket statements. It is sort of like saying that Harvard is better than Yale. The department and the people are what matter. My own experience at Mayo in Jacksonville in the orthopedic department could not have been better and I don't believe it is possible to have had a better outcome anywhere, and that was after two well respected sports medicine practices could not diagnose, let alone, repair the problem. I sort of look at Mayo as the "place you go when nobody else has a clue".
It would be more useful to state which departments at which facilities are the best since it is doubtful that one facility has all the best departments. Having been in the "biz", you are in a position to state "if you have this problem, the best people are here". Thanks.
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Sounds good in theory, but not that simple. It's like asking who is the best surgeon for an appendectomy. Well, just about anyone since a surgeon who can't perform a great appendectomy needs a career change. Who has the best orthopedic dept.? Who is the best orthopedist? For what? A knee arthroscopy?---just about all of them. For a lateral approach TKR? The list gets shorter. For a repeat TKR in a patient who had an infected prosthesis with osteomyelitis and recurrent sepsis, bone loss and weighs 350#. Very short list. And in the latter case, probably half the orthopedists who might be able to do it wouldn't attempt it, since "the powers that be" are keeping statistics on bad outcomes.
One of the country's best cardiac surgeons of the 80's had a mortality rate approaching 5% while his peers were at 1.5%. Why? Because Randy would take on cases that no one else would touch---meaning he gave those patients a chance while the others would let them die. Remember, statistics don't lie, people lie with statistics
Mayo in Jacksonville may be an excellent facility with a superb medical staff, maybe Phoenix is as well. But if they do, it is because they built a great institution and staff, not because they share a name with a famous clinic/hospital.