Surgeries On Friday Are More Frequently Fatal 152
antdude writes "A British Medical Journal (BMJ) research report says that 'Surgeries on Friday Are More Frequently Fatal ... compared to those who opt for really bad Mondays, Britons who have a planned surgery on a Friday are 44 percent more likely to die. And the few patients who had a leisurely weekend surgery saw that number jump to 82 percent. The skeleton staff working on weekends might be to blame.'"
The staff are dead as well?! (Score:5, Funny)
The skeleton staff working on weekends might be to blame.
Re:Correlation (Score:5, Funny)
However, currently there isn't enough evidence to make me try and avoid late week surgery.
I'm so glad there are still a few people brave enough to be operated on on Fridays. We can call it "correlation is not causation" day, or "I won't believe it until Saint Peter himself confirms it".
For fuck's sake, Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)
"A British Medical Journal (BMJ) research report says that 'Surgeries on Friday Are More Frequently Fatal ... compared to those who opt for really bad Mondays, Britons who have a planned surgery on a Friday are 44 percent more likely to die. And the few patients who had a leisurely weekend surgery saw that number jump to 82 percent. The skeleton staff working on weekends might be to blame.'"
You really need to decide where the quotes are supposed to go in this summary. I very much doubt that a BMJ report would ever use such glib phrases as "really bad Mondays" and "leisurely weekend surgery."
In fact I don't think anything in TFS has actually been quoted from the report, beyond individual words or numbers. So why is it in quotes? Or are they just random apostrophes?
Re:Statistics can be misleading (Score:5, Funny)
No, you're missing the obvious inference here.
The only major difference between weekdays and weekends is that the administrative staff is gone by Friday at 1400. Thus, quid pro quo and all that;
Administrators are needed for safe surgery.
Who the hell knew?