[yomlica8]

> - Doctors in training usually want to work as much as possible to finish their training as fast as possible, especially if they want to work in surgery. For instance, if you train for "general surgery", you need to do about 25 appendectomies, about 35 cholecystectomies, and so on. So in a perverse way, you need a bit of "luck" that you are working while these cases come in. More time in the hospital simply increases your luck.

Sounds like a great way to incentivize tons of unnecessary surgeries as well.

[deng]

Oh, you bet! Fortunately, it is not for the doctor in training to decide if these kind of surgeries are necessary. However, for smaller things in diagnostics, let's say a spinal tap or something like that, it is absolutely possible that on overeager doctor in training will do this unnecessarily, because I think they have a training quota for these as well. However, biggest risk for unnecessary surgery in Germany is still private health insurance...