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7. What Happens to Patients When Thousands of Cardiologists Leave Town?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Cardiology Conferences - What Did Jana and His Colleagues Find?

Patients with heart failure were eight percentage points more likely to survive during a cardiology conference. In non teaching hospitals, the conference didn't seem to matter. But patients who were admitted for car aarrest to a teaching hospital during one of the cardiology conferences were roughly ten per centage points more Likely to survive than if they were admitted on non conference dates.

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