A new study published in JAMA found that patients who got medical procedures right before the weekend tended to suffer more complications than those who got surgery at the beginning of the week. The study analyzed over 450,000 patients receiving one of the 25 most common surgeries from 2007 to 2019 and found that overall, people who had pre-weekend surgeries on Friday (or a Thursday before a long weekend) were 5 percent more likely to experience complications within a year compared to those who got surgery on Mondays (or a Tuesday in the event of a long weekend). This, if anything, means that a diagnosis of “a case of the Mondays” may, in fact, confer significant health benefits, so hey, could be worse.
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