[habosa]

I remember a previous study showing that junior doctors were actually associated with better results since they were more recently trained and had less ingrained habits/biases.

Don't know if it applied to surgery though.

[ajsnigrutin]

Most critical cases (with higher chance of death) would probably be given to more senior, experienced surgeons, and that skews the statistics.

[ummonk]

Sounds like you're remembering the heart attack during cardiology conferences study? https://media.jamanetwork.com/news-item/patient-outcomes-whe...

[barry-cotter]

I would be surprised if it did. I believe the reduction in doctors’ overtime was a wash for parent safety as more shift handoffs and less sleep deprivation more or less canceled except in surgery where it increased mistakes.

[mattkrause]

Those studies are silly though—-the “reduced” schedule is often still something like 24 hours on-duty (vs 28).

Hand-off is also something that could, in principle, be improved whereas long shifts are just butting up against the limits of human physiology.

[albertgoeswoof]

I suppose what you want is someone with enough experience, but who hasn't been out of medical school for too long. Probably 7-10 years of experience would be the sweet spot.

I wonder if this applies to other domains as well.