<story><title>Mortality patterns for patients hospitalized during cardiology meetings (2016)</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4314435/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mhb</author><text>Comment from Marginal Revolution by someone who sounds knowledgeable:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;To start with there is a significant problem with the article. Cardiac surgeons don&amp;#x27;t go to cardiology meetings and don&amp;#x27;t perform the type of interventions mentioned in the article. Interventional cardiologists are not cardiac surgeons. The recurrent mislabeling of the specialty involved is yet another example of the slipshod treatment and lack of understanding of science and medicine in the lay press which makes for an ill-informed public.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marginalrevolution.com&amp;#x2F;marginalrevolution&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;86443.html?commentID=160636865&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marginalrevolution.com&amp;#x2F;marginalrevolution&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;86...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Mortality patterns for patients hospitalized during cardiology meetings (2016)</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4314435/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I had a friend tell me of an old doctor of his.&lt;p&gt;He said his doctor (an internist) was attending a medical conference for allergists, in the Bahamas. About 500 doctors attended.&lt;p&gt;This doctor was fearfully allergic to peanuts. Like, anaphylactic allergic.&lt;p&gt;He had an anaphylactic reaction to something he ate, during the main speaker banquet.&lt;p&gt;He died.&lt;p&gt;Surrounded by 500 allergists.</text></comment>