Money can’t buy me love.

How do most patients decide where to receive their cancer treatments? At the place with the most effective advertisements, duh. This interesting analysis asked if there is any correlation between a hospital’s advertising dollars and its patient survival times. There weren’t. We’re loathe to single anyone out, so we’ll use nondescript initials for a case in point: CTCoA had poorer patient outcomes than all other hospitals in this sample, while spending more than all other hospitals...combined. | Lipitz-Snyderman, Lancet Oncol 2019