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I remember a previous study showing that junior doctors were actually associated with better results since they were more recently trained and had less ingraine
by habosa 6y ago
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.
- albertgoeswoof 6y agoI 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.
- ummonk 6y agoSounds like you're remembering the heart attack during cardiology conferences study? https://media.jamanetwork.com/news-item/patient-outcomes-when-cardiologists-away-at-big-meetings/ https://media.jamanetwork.com/news-item/patient-outcomes-whe...
- ajsnigrutin 6y agoMost critical cases (with higher chance of death) would probably be given to more senior, experienced surgeons, and that skews the statistics.
- barry-cotter 6y agoI 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 6y agoThose 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.