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Ben White
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Ben White's personal blog at benwhite.com covers health and economics. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Private Equity Model in Medicine Is Flawed”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ben White's posts on medicine and science careers, such as a piece on private equity in radiology and one on the PhD metagame. Commenters cite them as sources in discussions of physician pay and academia.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Private Equity Model in Medicine Is Flawed2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-29
What Hacker News says?
Some of it is capitalism. Here’s a nice introduction to private equity in radiology. https://www.benwhite.com/medicine/the-private-equity-model-i... Now with surgery? Again there’s some capitalism but also surgery is hard. Extremely hard. Here’s a link to a common surgery for orthopedics for example. They have to memorize these procedure steps and be very quick. Time on the table for the patient matters for money an…
Comment linking /medicine/the-private-equity-model-in-medicine-is-flawed/
on “People don't work as much as they say”Submitted Baumol's Cost Disease and the Undercutting of Physician Pay as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMax Planck argued that change takes time because good ideas need enough staying power to outlive their detractors: > A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it … An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting i…
Comment linking /misc/good-ideas-need-to-outlive-the-old-guard/
on “The PhD Metagame: Don't try to reform science – not yet”Submitted The Private Equity Model in Medicine Is Flawed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou trying to be abrasive or no? It seems like yes but I’ll respond. Everyone I know from multiple residencies and in fellowship all reset radprimer and redid the questions for core. It’s not like people save it, they do it twice. Anyways, like I said, I was pretty average for prep. Also I forgot to add - everyone I know also used the Radiology Core Physics app, that’s like an additional 300 or 500 questions. Ben Wh…
Comment linking /radiology/approaching-the-abr-core-exam/
on “Why doctors in America earn so much”