Thursday, March 15, 2007

Mint vs. Cilantro

I just finished reading a report about how you're more likely to die from a heart attack on the weekend. The report states that due to reduced staffing on the weekends you'll sometimes end up waiting longer for your angioplasty or whatever. Is this a bank or a place where people come because they've had occasion to bounce off the hood of a car? Is this the newsstand in the atrium of your office building or the place where folks show up because they believe their heart is trying to free itself from their chest? Is this, ok, that'll do. If the husband and wife who run the laundromat I go to can be there all day every day I'd like to see a little more dedication out of the medical community. I'm not comparing the folding of clothes to the science of medicine, but these laundromat folks never go home! I'd also like to see a doctor's diploma on their wall feature a grade point average. Everyone likes those two predestine days of rest at the end of the week, but this isn't some Loverboy song Dr. Red Duke, you have to make that tee time for a Wednesday.

Because I realize that this is the next stop for a lot of my physician readers after visiting the Journal of Medicine website, I just want to say that it is only a 5% better chance you'll die from a heart attack on the weekend.