Many people are aware that cars built on Mondays are supposed to have more defects than cars built on the other days of the week; apparently, this is (at least once upon a time was) because severely hungover auto workers would either do a bad job, or call in sick, causing reassignment of people on the assembly line to tasks other than their normal ones. I don't know if this is still true or not, but Theodore Dalrymple at PJMedia describes a recent British Medical Journal study of 30 day death rates after surgical procedures -- and discovered that Friday operations had a 44% higher death rate than Monday operations -- and the death rate variation was consistent: Tuesday was worse than Monday, Wednesday worse than Tuesday.
It makes you wonder: are surgical teams more likely to make mistakes the later in the week it is?
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