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Cardiologists were like “what happens to our patients when we’re all away at our meetings????” but it turns out they do better
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
![JAMA
Abstract
Importance Thousands of physicians attend scientific meetings annually. Although hospital physician staffing and composition may be affected by meetings, patient outcomes and treatment patterns during meeting dates are unknown.
Objective To analyze mortality and treatment differences among patients admitted with acute cardiovascular conditions during dates of national cardiology meetings compared with nonmeeting dates.
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Conclusions and Relevance High-risk patients with heart failure and cardiac arrest hospitalized in teaching hospitals had lower 30-day mortality when admitted during dates of national cardiology meetings. High-risk patients with AMI admitted to teaching hospitals during meetings were less likely to receive PCI, without any mortality effect.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_600,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FFbJKCPYUEAATS5z.jpg)
The right question to ask is: "Maybe operations (which require the cardiologist to be present) have high risk but long term rewards", this would imply maybe better survival numbers further out. But, don't worry, they checked that too.
The human eye is an excellent example of suboptimal bottom-up design resulting from the constraints of evolutionary historical contingency
I had previously heard about how the retina cells are upside down, but I had not heard about all of these other problems. The nonfunctional redundancy of the muscles is particularly silly.
Well that's some AI Risk right there! The robot's creator: "Why do this? I don't know". Clearly we're doomed.
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