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Then that effect should appear in other disciplines, shouldn't it?

• tgb 12y ago
  My understanding is that they only looked at cardiac patients, so that wouldn't contradict the study.
• Fomite 12y ago
  Would depend on, among other things, how easy it is to "schedule" complicated cases. For some specialties this is straightforward, for others, it's not.
• et2o 12y ago
  See mortality during the Canadian physicians' strike.
• jfoster 12y ago
  It might depend on how risky the surgery is in each discipline. I'd expect heart and brain surgery to be among the riskiest, whereas other types of surgery might be significantly less risky. I wouldn't expect most cancer patients to die from their surgeries, for example.