{"id":151,"date":"2007-03-19T12:48:58","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T11:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resource.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/03\/19\/nejm-15-mar-2007-vol-356\/"},"modified":"2007-03-19T12:48:58","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T11:48:58","slug":"nejm-15-mar-2007-vol-356","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/03\/19\/nejm-15-mar-2007-vol-356\/","title":{"rendered":"NEJM  15 Mar 2007  Vol 356"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been lots of studies about the best place to have<a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/356\/11\/1099\"> myocardial infarction<\/a> (answer: close to a major hospital) but this is the first I have read about the <a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/356\/11\/1099\">best time<\/a> to have one.<!--more--> Avoid weekends. Mortality is higher, and fewer invasive procedures take place. This applies to New Jersey, and I bet it applies even more to the UK. Make sure you have your heart attack in a big city with a good ambulance service on a Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>If you are unlucky enough to get <a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/356\/11\/1110\">myeloma below the age of 65<\/a>, let\u2019s hope you have a <a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/356\/11\/1110\">sibling who is HLA-identical<\/a>. <!--more-->Then after your own bone marrow has been ablated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, you will do better to have her or his haemopoietic stem-cells to replace it than if you have to rely on cells harvested from your own marrow.<\/p>\n<p>Can you get chickenpox twice? <!--more-->It\u2019s a common question to which it\u2019s uncommonly difficult to find a straight answer. I think the correct one is \u201cyes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been lots of studies about the best place to have myocardial infarction (answer: close to a major hospital) but this is the first I have read about the best time to have one. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/03\/19\/nejm-15-mar-2007-vol-356\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-richard-lehmans-weekly-review-of-medical-journals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/02\/richard-lehman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}