Medicine and Skin in the Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on how clinicians are pushed by the system to transfer risks to the patient

Nassim Nicholas Taleb writes in Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (2018):

“… attempts at putting skin in the game [in medical practice] have brought a certain class of adverse effects, in shifting uncertainty from the doctor to the patient.

The legal system and regulatory measures are likely to put the skin of the doctor in the wrong game.