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Timing analysis in health care is amazing. There is plenty of documentation that hour and day of week affects physician intervention in births. Women who are in labor during normal work hours are much more likely to have medical interventions like cesarean section. On a weekend, the rate of these is far less. Basically it depends a lot on whether your attending doctors need to leave at 5pm on a Friday because they have theater tickets.


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