patients who receive common operations in the daytime, well, they claim they fare no worse in the short term if the physician worked that hospital graveyard overnight shift the night before than patients whose doctor did not. so dr. siegel, does this make sense to you? well, first of all, it s a first of its kind study, and it looked at almost 40,000 patients in onterio and almost 1,500 physicians and looked at one day. you know, your doctor that day had the graveyard shift from 12:00 to 7:00 and next day had an elective procedure like a hip replacement or knee replacement or spinal surgery. how did he or she do in the complication rate was not greater, even if the surgeon worked overnight and the death rate was not higher and readmission rate was not higher. but, eric, the author of the study points out these are not trainees. we re talking about attending surgeons, like dr. samadi here, people who have experience. people who also have control of their schedule works can say i want
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