Service Magazine May Not Be Most Accurate Guide to Surgical Brilliance
Seen this week's New York yet? It's the annual "Best Doctors" issue. We haven't caught it personally, because our Supercuts always seems to be a week or two behind on its subscriptions, but we've been dying to see who snagged this year's valuable "Best Colon & Rectal Surgery" nod. Apparently, though, our anticipation is for naught: Writing in Slate, physician Kent Sepkowitz (himself a perennial "Best" listee) calls the list "heavily influenced by backslapping, back-stabbing, and old-fashioned old-boyism," and says it "isn't really about accuracy or quality. It's about sales."
Ah. So it's just like the National Magazine Awards, then. Now we get it.
