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by oaktrout
1044 days ago
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A 2018 article by the same author with a similar theme: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/jaha.117.008230 Interestingly, there were no differences in the number of procedures performed on meeting and nonmeeting days (it's not the surgeries that are killing people). The hypothesis that I find most interesting is that the cardiologists who are at the meetings spend less time caring for patients and more time doing research, hence they aren't as good at caring for patients. |
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A couple of years ago some friends of ours invited us to lunch with a couple of their relatives who were in town for a cardiology conference. They (the relatives) were both stout* people, technicians of some kind rather than doctors, and the husband was super hung over from the previous night.
Anyway, they told us all about how the sessions at these things were pretty dry, but the after party was always a drunken, hours long slurry of alcohol and aorta-clogging food, and it was so ludicrously un-heart-healthy that it was a running gag.
So I'm wondering if the people who opt to go to those things tend to perform differently in their work than the ones who stay home and live quieter lives?
(*I only mention this because a few days after we had lunch, the husband apparently had a heart attack while he was driving, pulled off to the side, and died.)