'My Patients are Sicker' Bias
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The common retort when confronted with the escalating cost of care and unexplained variation is: "But, my patients are sicker! Southerland, Fisher and Skinner in "Getting Past Denial — The High Cost of Health Care in the United States," are again observing their mentor, Jack Wennberg's dictum, written about extensively at the end of the last century and earlier, that the cost differences between regions and practices may be unwarranted.