Whenever I hear someone talking about some surgery or cancer treatment or whatever that they had, they always assure me that the doctor who did the work was “the very best” there is at that specialty. Think about this: how often will someone tell you that the doctor they saw was “the very worst”? Never, right? But if someone is the “very best” that means that someone else out there, practicing medicine and making a living at it, is the “very worst”.
A Massachusetts study from 1996 found that 1/3 of terminal cancer patients received useless chemotherapy treatments in the last six months of their lives.
They were given a useless treatment with terrible side-effects by a doctor who undoubtedly was “the best there is”.