Surgeon's Record August 15, 2024
Ben Schwartz, MD

This week’s collaborative article with Blake Madden/Hospitalogy on Big Retail in Healthcare has elicited a great response. (Here at The Surgeon’s Record, we call that the Blake effect!) Hindsight is 20/20 , for large companies who tread an uncertain path, and for those of us ruminating on the current and future state of healthcare.

Predicting the future is a fool’s game. Any honest investor or analyst must admit as much. Succumbing to FOMO and following the crowd is mostly safe. If everyone else is doing it, there must be a rational reason. It’s easier to let others think for you. Following along also carries less relative risk—if you lose, you’re not alone.

Predicting trends and anticipating the future comes down...

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