Dumb Surveys
Today I got a phone call asking me what I thought about hospitals in my area and how they are managed.
I went along with it for about 10 minutes, then my kids got unruly so I quit. He then called back and asked me several more questions an hour or so later.
The simple truth is that I pick my Hospital based apon the recommendation of my doctor, and perhaps more importantly the HMO or PPO that is footing the bill. I don't care who runs it, why they run it, how they run it. I go where the doctor schedules me.
They asked a lot of silly questions that I would have no way of knowing the answer to. For example, How do you think the Quality of Care at the Spokane based hospitals compares to hospitals elsewhere? I have not been hospitalized elsewhere. Actually, I have never been hospitalized here, but they didn't ask about that. "Do you think Locally owned hospitals are better run than those owned outside the area?" How many people read the annual reports for the hospitals in their area? I enjoy my blissful ignorance on this topic.
They didn't ask for additional input at the end, but I thought about telling him that hospitals that make business decisions based on the popular opinion of the uninformed public are most certainly mis-managed, and are quite efficiently wasting money.
If I every get filthy rich, and want to torment the public, perhaps I will hire a research firm to quiz people for 10 or 20 minutes on their opinons of Einstien's Special Theory of Relativity or something like that.
They asked If I worked for any heath care provider or insurance carrier. I am fairly certain that If I had said yes, they would have disqualified me. I will be sure to disqualify scientists from my special relativity poll.
