Interesting Links for 05-01-2022

[andrewducker]

Are pheasants livestock or wildlife? (Schroedinger would be proud)

(tags:animals law ontology uk )

Here are the arguments Prince Andrew's lawyer is trying to use to get the rape case dismissed

(tags:rape monarchy USA law )

'90 Day Fiancé' star retires from selling farts after heart attack scare

(tags:headline gas wtf )

The UX on this small child is terrible

(tags:children ux funny parenting )

You Can Skip the First Few Seasons of Your Child's Life, Because It Doesn't Really Get Good Until Season 6 (This is remarkably accurate)

(tags:children satire TV funny parenting viaSwampers )

Public overwhelmingly against Tony Blair knighthood, poll finds

(tags:tonyblair uk politics polls )

Sony confirms PlayStation VR2's specs, first official game

(tags:VirtualReality PlayStation games consoles )

Female patients are more likely to die if thesurgeon is male

(tags:surgery women men society OhForFucksSake patriarchy )

Comments

[adrian_turtle]

There is a similar effect where Black mothers are less likely to die in/shortly-after childbirth in the care of Black obstetricians. Even with white doctors who had been well trained to be non-racist, the effect persisted. The article [In the Esteemed Journal of I Think I Saw It Somewhere] basically said they had measured the effect and found it statistically significant but did not know why it was so persistent.

Other people thought it might be because of not listening to patients. Consistent procedures that rely less on listening to patients did seem to reduce death rates. ie, measuring post-partum blood loss for everyone, so a problem will be automatically detected even if doctors don't take somebody's complaints seriously. That sort of thing isn't a complete failsafe, because there will always be problems your automatic procedures aren't set up to catch.