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Shari
I heard this on the CBS radio news on Wednesday. The University of Toronto did a study on the best/worst days for emergency surgery. What caught my ear was that they used an aortic anneurism as an example of a type of emergency surgery. The study found out that people had a higher mortality rate if they had emergency surgery done on the weekend. It appears that the better surgeons often take weekends off for whatever reason and the hospital has more "second stringers" on the weekends. I laughed and told my husband that Thank God, he passed out in his hotel room on Tuesday and they found the anneurism on Friday! Whew!