When the doctor’s away, the patient is more likely to survive

[BrotherIvan]

1. Not shocked

In my experience, nurses in the hospital are far more knowledgable and give better care than the doctor. The article states that one of the reasons for the better outcome when heart specialists are away is because they might prescribe more aggressive/risky treatments when they are there. Because of a lack of listening to the patient, or having an ounce of compassion, I have also found that they take a patient who really needs rest and care and puts them through an endless gauntlet of stressful and invasive tests to try to guess what's wrong (often just shrugging their shoulders when the test doesn't reveal anything). Always got a straight answer and a clear plan of care from the nurse--doctors very, very rarely. Not a huge fan of the system as you can see.