Don't go to hospital in August

[Miss Demeanour]

A small but statistically significant number of patients die each year when junior doctors start work in August, an Imperial College London study suggests.

Researchers looked at 300,000 patients admitted as emergencies to English hospitals between 2000 and 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 enter the wards has sometimes been dubbed the "killing season", but studies to establish whether there is any truth to this have been inconclusive.


Forewarned is forearmed 

[Snoopy]

Unfortunately we cannot choose the time when we need A&E.

By definition ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY is something that you hope not to use but cannot pre-plan.

[Darwins Selection]

ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY is something that you hope not to use but cannot pre-plan.

Surely that applies to the entire NHS?

[Snoopy]

ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY is something that you hope not to use but cannot pre-plan.

Surely that applies to the entire NHS?

Another debate altogether ~ the reported research was specifically into A&E admissions.

[Darwins Selection]

ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY is something that you hope not to use but cannot pre-plan.

Surely that applies to the entire NHS?

Another debate altogether ~ the reported research was specifically into A&E admissions.

I defer to my learned friend. 

[Snoopy]

 

[Darwins Selection]

You are welcome. 





Smug arse

[Miss Demeanour]

I'm dying of embarrassment now - get a room you two 

[Darwins Selection]

I'm dying of embarrassment now - get a room you two 

"No Dogs Allowed"

[Barman]

I'm dying of embarrassment now - get a room you two 

"No Dogs Allowed"

 

[Snoopy]