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Confidentiality issues will also need to be addressed when information is gathered on surgeons' skills.For example, should details recorded during surgical procedures be made public and admissible in court when something goes wrong?"As a surgeon, the information could protect you, but it could also implicate you, and it's unclear how much of that information should be exposed," said Lee.Aggarwal also points to another concern, which relates to the dangers of focusing only on a surgeon's technical skills to assesscompetency."Surgeryismuchmorethanfixing things.Surgeons have to interact with patients and a team of clinicians to make shared decisions about situations that may have a number of options," he said."We have