If you were a government official whose task was to cut medical costs would this sort of information be helpful (refer to picture attached) What would you do? What added info might you want? Remember the data presented earlier showing that the presence of a larger proportion of family physicians decreases mortality while more specialists increase mortality.

137,000 General practitioner/ family physician visits 54,000 Specialist visits 41,000 X-rays taken 2 4 12,000 Emergency 3,000 HOURS department Hospital visits admissions 50 2,000 Hip and knee Computerized tomography/ replacements magnetic resonance imaging scans "Values rounded to the nearest thousand with the exception of hip and knee replacements, which were rounded to the nearest 10