Hospital confidential.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Brief article

"What Scares Doctors?" was the first half of a recent headline in Time; the second was, "Being A Patient." The accompanying article, which smack me as a really great idea, described what worries the insiders about what could go wrong if they turned from providers to customers of the health-care system. One timely example of the lessons to be learned from the article: Don't schedule elective surgery in July. That's when the new doctors are just starting their internships and are most likely...