CEREBROSPINALECTOMY
Email: "Exciting news — our practice has joined a new partner network."
Me: "Who owns us now?"
Admin: "A fund."
Me: "A fund owns the room where I decide whether someone gets a clot-busting drug in the next twenty minutes?"
Admin: "The fund is very excited about your throughput."
Send this to the colleague who found out who owns their practice from an email.
EXPLAINED (ACCURACY-CHECKED)
Intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke is a time-critical physician decision: the probability of a good outcome falls with every minute of delay from symptom onset to treatment, which is why door-to-needle time is a tracked quality measure.
Established stroke neurology: time-dependent benefit of IV thrombolysis; door-to-needle as a standard quality metric.
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