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Re:Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if surgery is on ... by newsgourmet on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @08:15AM (#25442099)
I think you have it backwards. The risk of the individual surgeries is not increased. Only the risk that a surgeon will be confronted with an above average critical surgery is increased.

It is not even clear that there actually is a problem. It's just a weird way to slice the data to produce an effect.

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Re:Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if surgery is on ... by quietbritishjim on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @08:30AM (#25442246)
> The risk of the individual surgeries is not increased.

They never said that it did (unless they've edited their comment since you replied to it). They just said that the percentage [of deaths on surgeons' birthdays] will increase, and that is correct.

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