Never on a Sunday (or Saturday)...

Try not to get admitted to hospital at the weekend - your chances of survival will be worse than if you are admitted during the week.  This is in fact nothing new, and the difference has traditionally been put down to the reduced staffing of hospitals at weekends, particularly at consultant level.  And there have been constant calls for hospitals to switch to a 24/7 schedule, with Saturdays and Sundays treated no differently from any other day.  But - just a thought - could it be that weekend admissions tend to be the more serious and emergency cases and therefore because of that more likely to have a negative outcome?  Bit of both, maybe?