FRIDAY EFFECT X SURGERY

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Friday surgeries tend to be riskier due to several factors, often referred to as the "Friday Effect." Here’s why:

1. Reduced Post-Operative Care Over the Weekend

• Fewer staff on weekends: Hospitals typically have fewer specialists, senior doctors, and support staff available on Saturdays and Sundays.

• Delayed response to complications: If post-op issues arise, they might not be caught or managed as quickly as they would on a weekday.

2. Surgeon & Staff Fatigue

• By Friday, surgeons and operating room staff have worked a full week, increasing the likelihood of errors due to mental and physical fatigue.

3. Delayed Follow-Ups & Testing

• Many essential follow-up tests (such as imaging, blood work, or specialist consultations) may be postponed until Monday, potentially delaying critical interventions.

4. Higher Readmission & Mortality Rates

• Studies suggest patients who have surgery on a Friday have higher rates of complications and hospital readmissions compared to those who undergo surgery earlier in the week.

5. Weekend Discharge Pressure

• Some hospitals push to discharge patients before the weekend to free up beds, sometimes leading to premature releases without adequate recovery time.

Bottom Line

If possible, elective surgeries are often safer when scheduled earlier in the week to ensure better post-op care and monitoring. However, emergency surgeries are unavoidable and hospitals have protocols in place to manage weekend cases.

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How do you see the world when you are spiritually awakened? What is your new outlook on the world?

Although impossible to describe in words, here is a particularly beautiful account from Jean Klein:

“The old patterns of thinking and acting - of false identification with the body mind - having lost their concreteness, no longer had any hold. Everything was perceived in a new way. I had been lured by names and forms as I strove for having and becoming, but with the orientation of energy there came a new order of values. I felt an establishing in attention, and unfolding in fullness to awareness.

Then a complete change occurred one evening on Marine Drive in Bombay. I was watching flying birds without thought or interpretation, when I was completely taken by them and felt everything happening inside myself (instead of outside.) In this moment I knew my Self consciously. The self image had completely dissolved and, freed from the conflict and interference of the “I” image, all happenings belonged to Being Awareness, the Totality. Life flowed on without the cross-currents of the ego. Psychological memory, like and dislike, attraction and repulsion, had vanished. The constant presence, that we call Self, was free from repetition, memory, judgment, comparison and appraisal. The center of my being had been spontaneously ejected from time and space into timeless stillness.

I knew my Self in present happening, not as a concept but as a being without localization in time and space. In this non-state there was freedom, full and objectless joy.”

I hope you can go beyond the words and get the fragrance of this. As limited as these descriptions are, falling on the ear, I wish you all experience this directly :-)

All Love

• Teja