Seriously, if bookmarking and remembering a tab can change your life expectency by years, that’s one hell of a cost/benefit ratio. I’d put absurdly high odds on it being worth picking out a default hospital beforehand, so you don’t have to make a split-second decision in an emergency. Like, you just never see low hanging fruit with cost/benefit ratios that high in day-to-day life.
Like, maybe print off the info for a couple choices, and magnet them to the fridge with the closest one on top and the best one underneath? Add closest address to your GPS, and drive the route once so you know that you know it? I’m pretty sure this could be optimized further with more thought.
Also, I can’t find it now, but I think I recall Robin Hanson commenting on proximity of home to the nearest hospital being a major determinent in life expectency, along with things like rural living. I think someone was musing about whether property values were any higher near hospitals, but I don’t remember if they got an answer or what it was.
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Seriously, if bookmarking and remembering a tab can change your life expectency by years, that’s one hell of a cost/benefit ratio. I’d put absurdly high odds on it being worth picking out a default hospital beforehand, so you don’t have to make a split-second decision in an emergency. Like, you just never see low hanging fruit with cost/benefit ratios that high in day-to-day life.
Like, maybe print off the info for a couple choices, and magnet them to the fridge with the closest one on top and the best one underneath? Add closest address to your GPS, and drive the route once so you know that you know it? I’m pretty sure this could be optimized further with more thought.
Also, I can’t find it now, but I think I recall Robin Hanson commenting on proximity of home to the nearest hospital being a major determinent in life expectency, along with things like rural living. I think someone was musing about whether property values were any higher near hospitals, but I don’t remember if they got an answer or what it was.
I just did this and it was pretty easy! And in fact I decided to change the hospital I go to by default.
If you pick out your default hospital it might be worthwhile to share the information on facebook with a nice hashtag.