Significant drop in mortality when doctors are away from work

haidut

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That's one thing the American Heart Association is good for.
 

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Another factor suggested by in the comment by Fatesrider after the article:

But there's a fourth theory I can think of: Training.

[...] This runs kind of counter to some things, and plays into the "aggressive treatment" to a small extent, but the training physicians receive has to be ONGOING. They don't call it "practicing medicine" for fun. Some doctors stay up better on their training than others. Some get into the newer methods that aren't necessarily more "aggressive", but may be more effective than others.

Those who are most in NEED of training would go to these seminars. So it's left to the ones who actually have a clue (at least from a Hippocratic oath, "do no harm" point of view) to carry on in their absence. They tend to be less experienced, but likely have more up to date knowledge than some of their older peers - the knowledge they went to the seminars to get. That means potentially better knowledgeable care because they learned the more recent and potentially more effective ways of doing some things.
 
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The seminars with catering by McDonald's Corporation?
 

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In total, there were tens of thousands of patients involved. And the trends were clear. At teaching hospitals, the rate of death after heart failure was 24.8 percent on non-meeting days. While the cardiologists were out of town, it dropped to 17 percent. A similar trend was apparent with cardiac arrests, where death rates fell from 68.6 percent to 59 percent while cardiology meetings were happening.
More training for cardiologists! :D
 

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