"Honey, I just made an appointment for the operation so you might wanna jot this down in your calendar.""I hope you remembered to get one during the new moon phase."
"Yes dear, but what's even more important, it's nowhere near "the killing season."
"The killing season?"
BBC News;
'Deaths rise' with junior doctors
Researchers say they have found a small but statistically significant increase in the number of patients who die each year when junior doctors start work.
An Imperial College team looked at 300,000 emergency patients admitted to English hospitals between 2000 to 2008.
They compared death rates between the first week of August, when new doctors arrive, and the previous week in July.
After adjusting for various factors, they report in PLoS One that the August patients were 6% more likely to die.
The period when an influx of newly qualified doctors enters the wards has sometimes been dubbed the "killing season", but studies to establish whether there is any truth to this have been inconclusive.
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So they found a new way to shift the blame for their well establed eugenics program on the junior doctors. If it weren't so appalling we might be able to see some humor in that.
ReplyDeleteWhat the vaccines don't kill the junior doctors will!
ha
Maybe. I kinda think they have a case though. At least for the UK.
ReplyDeleteMy Nurse friend trains new doctors on her wards!
ReplyDeletethey may have a paper saying they can practice, but she has seen too many f/ups, and she will correct them. ok as long as she is on shift, heaven help the patient when she is not..