In 1988, the American doctor Randolph Byrd recruited some born-again Christians to pray outside a San Francisco coronarycareunit for a randomized group among 400 patients.
Dr. Kirk Garratt, an associate director of the division of cardiac intervention and director of the coronarycareunit at Lenox Hill Hospital, in New York City, agreed.
We are extremely encouraged by Gerard's improvement over the past six days and we now anticipate that he will be discharged from the coronarycareunit within the next three to four days.
Compared with both the complex logistical model and the defensive status quo, this heuristic helped the doctors to send more patients to the coronary-care unit who belonged there and fewer who did not.