Interesting Links for 12-12-2023

[andrewducker]

1. US food producers caught price fixing

(tags:USA corruption food )

2. Eleven Scottish football arrests under new anti-pyrotechnic laws

(tags:Scotland fireworks football law )

3. London hospital cuts waiting lists with innovative system

(tags:healthcare surgery efficiency organisation )

4. How good are *you* at spotting fake news? (I got 16/16)

(tags:psychology fraud news viaPatrickHadfield )

Comments

[bens_dad]

2. Are these flares etc. being used as intended, or are they being misused, perhaps repurposed safety flares ?
It isn't clear that they should be sold for this sort of use.
IIRC I did see (via tv) smoke-flares in the stands at European matches thirty plus years ago.

3. If the surgeon is in theatre with the previous patient, who goes through the paperwork with you and draws the marks where the work will be done - so that you know they will operate on the correct part of you ?

Probably slightly increases the time you are under anaesthetic too.

But why have they got a spare theatre in the first place ?
If they had two lead surgeons working leisurely they would get through more operations in the same time than this gives them with two teams supporting one lead working "optimally".
(OK there *are* times when a spare theatre is useful. I've been wheeled into one then they decided something wasn't right, perhaps some bit of kit, and they have moved me to the other theatre.)