Several recent studies including one by the American Medical Association found that when cardiologists go away to conferences for a week, heart patients visiting at their clinics and hospitals
tend to have fewer heart attacks and are less prone to heart failure than when the cardiologists are back and working at their institutions. Heart patients are also less likely to die during cardiology conferences.
A. Provide a reasonable and rational explanation for how this might occur.
B. Is this something you think would be unique to the USA or universal across all health systems? Explain why you think the way you do, either way.
C. Should this phenomenon change the way we care for cardiac patients?
