When's the Best and Worst Time to Have a Heart Attack?

Guest: Anupam Jena, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard, Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital All around the country, people with common interests or expertise come together for big gatherings. Heart doctors go to cardiology conferences. Gun enthusiasts go to the NRA convention. Runners converge for the Boston Marathon. And when these gatherings happen, there are consequences for public health. Surprising consequences in many cases. For example, what happens to the patients of all those top-flight cardiologists when they’re away at the conference? Do they get worse care from the doctors who fill in? Actually, no. They do better.