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Specialists are expensive.

This guy always sounds like the last of his patience (that's patience, not patients), has just been sucked out of him by some common plebes, and he barely has the time to bother with making the stupid video for the rest of the common masses.

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Yep. Seems like a reasonable position.

You always sound like an asshole

Depends on the surgery. You don't need a specialist to do your acute appendectomy or cholecystectomy, but you DO need a specialist to do your knee replacement or ICA aneurysm clipping.

Also, I assume the risk reductions presented are relative - e.g. if mortality from a non-specialist surgeon procedure is 5% and a specialist surgeon mortality has a 4% risk, the relative risk reduction is 20% (absolute risk reduction is only 1%), which sounds really high and may be statistically significant, but in the real-world does not matter all that much. This would be called statistically significant, but likely not clinically significant.