Before you have a procedure performed, ask your doctor a simple question: "How many times have you performed this procedure". What I have noticed doctors absolutely hate his question - I have witnessed doctors become visibly angry. I have never once had a doctor answer this question. I have heard answers from: "We don't keep those records" to "We don't keep totals". Are these records not kept? Why wouldn't this be public information? There must be practices with 0 performed procedures completed, and are you patient 1? How can doctors improve if they don't keep transparent numbers of procedures performed, procedures failed, procedures which were successful? "How can you define procedures failed?" - I can hear some say. But that is a discussion these professionals need to have to find incompetence hiding among their ranks.