My somewhat tongue-in-cheek Huffington Post story on atheists getting a bypass in airport security lines easily garnered the most impressions of any story I wrote this last year.
The Web site, known for its Pepto-Bismol pink home page, features a mix of health advice, parenting tips and message boards ("Does anyone here regret getting a gastric bypass?").
Especially for cir1 and cir3 we get a partition bypass rate around 30% (see Table 3) and thus additional overall sequential speedup of 20% in the elapsed time.
"Take 50 people across the country getting a triple bypass, and it seems to me that all 50 of those people go on a bespoke journey".
It is well known that massively-obese patients can reverse their diabetes within a few weeks of getting a gastric bypass, even if they haven't lost that much weight.
This chart shows the number of patients who got a coronary artery bypass graft, without valve or other surgery, at hospitals in New York and New Jersey in 2003, along with the number of doctors in each hospital who did an average of more than 50 such operations there.
Of cases bypassing the list, 37.0 % gets an appointment within the first week, and almost 68.2 % within 2 weeks.
But to get a glimpse of how bypass-the-press might work, look no further than the Bush administration.
And, to be honest, we do sometimes have to hustle a little more to get a story or get bypassed entirely for massive launches that everyone else is covering anyway.
