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Around 2 pm, cognitive and physical performance drop sharply. Anesthesia errors triple at 3 pm compared to 9 am, afternoon colonoscopies miss more polyps, and test scores dip. Avoid scheduling critical medical appointments in the afternoon.
Around 2 pm, cognitive and physical performance drop sharply. Anesthesia errors triple at 3 pm compared to 9 am, afternoon colonoscopies miss more polyps, and test scores dip. Avoid scheduling critical medical appointments in the afternoon.
Typically, we hit a dip around 7 hours after we wake up. So, so for someone like me, you're exactly right. I wake up at 7. I'm going to hit a dip at, you know, around, around 2. Now, that dip is more dangerous than I think we realize. So if you look at some of the research on afternoons, what you see here is it's pretty remarkable. Standardized test scores for kids lower in the afternoon than in the morning. Math grades lower in the afternoon if they take math in the afternoon than if they take them in the morning. Anesthesia errors 3 times more likely at 3:00 PM than at 9:00 AM. Fewer polyps detected in colonoscopies. Don't go to the hospital in the afternoon, for real. I mean, don't do that. Don't go in the afternoon. I mean, don't schedule an important doctor's appointment or anything important in a hospital in the afternoon. I truly will not let anybody in my family do that now that I've looked at this, that I've looked at this research. You see it in auto accidents. Auto accidents are complicated. The number of accidents is going to be a function of how many cars there are on the road. And so there's not a constant number of cars on the road. So you want to control for that. The most dangerous time to be on the road is between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. The second most dangerous time, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. And so during this trough, okay, it's not a good time for us.
