15 comments

  • juansaavedrauy 4 hours ago
    I think this is my first post in hn.

    I'm a tifosi. But what a poor choice of F1 team to learn from successful, coordinated, well and timely executed pit stops.

    • ericcumbee 3 hours ago
      Pit stops aren't Ferrari's problem. its race Strategy.
    • cjrp 3 hours ago
      To be fair they did win the Fastest Pit Stop Award last season https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/2025-dhl-fastest-...
    • gadders 3 hours ago
      >>I'm a tifosi.

      Like one of those big banners they hold up at football (soccer) matches?

      • Jeremy1026 3 hours ago
        Tifosi is just Italian for "fans". In this context, it's fans of the Ferrari F1 team.
      • kqr 2 hours ago
        Those are called tifo. Tifosi are the people doing the holding.
    • joe_mamba 4 hours ago
      My thought exactly. When I read the title, I thought they're gonna get more people killed if they use Ferrari F1 pit crew as their learning benchmark lol.
      • ushimitsudoki 1 hour ago
        I still vividly remember Massa's pit stop at the 2008 Singapore GP.

        https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Pit+Stop+Felipe...

        As a die-hard Schumacher fan, I really wanted to see Massa take the title that year, so it was heartbreaking. And yet, I can't help but laugh every time I see the Ferrari crew looking so dejected, carrying that fuel hose back to the garage like a defeated army.

        I suppose we shouldn't apply this "Ferrari system" to medical surgery—unless the patient is prepared to have their aorta dragged out along with the equipment.

      • rrr_oh_man 4 hours ago
        That article seems to be from 2012…
        • joe_mamba 1 hour ago
          Ferrari pit crew wasn't much better back then either. Author probably was thinking of the Jean Todt - Schumacher era of Ferrari.
    • seymore_12 3 hours ago
      Dov'è la gomma? :-)
    • geremiiah 4 hours ago
      It's tifoso or tifosa (female). Tifosi is plural.
      • gib444 1 hour ago
        Right! Time to go make a panini
      • rrr_oh_man 4 hours ago
        Welcoming people in typical HN style
        • angled 3 hours ago
          Let's add that to the words of wisdom.
    • scrlk 2 hours ago
      Next up: learning effective radio communication from Ferrari F1 race engineers ;)
    • throw1234567891 4 hours ago
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  • jerkstate 3 hours ago
    This means the patient makes up their own strategy and the doctor says “we are checking”
    • vjvjvjvjghv 2 hours ago
      Must be the water.
      • idan 1 hour ago
        was not expecting a HN crossover with /r/formula1 today, but here we are
  • gadders 4 hours ago
    I clicked the button saying "I work in healthcare" to get access #L33T_H4XX0r
    • Insanity 4 hours ago
      Yeah what a strange “guard” to put in place. No clue why they’d do it this way.

      I first thought it’d be a “I’m 18+ pop-up” lol.

      • fwipsy 3 hours ago
        My first thought was a conversation with a med student friend about the tension between medical research transparency and public policy. For example, it's good to get vaccinated, but some small fraction of people do have lasting side effects, and vaccine skeptics blow it out of proportion to support their views. So, medical professionals may be tempted to downplay vaccine injury to support public vaccination. Of course, doing so just erodes trust further if people notice. Anyways, perhaps this website is afraid people will hurt themselves with ambiguous information.
      • cucumber3732842 4 hours ago
        It's probably underpinned by the same sort of "we're legally/contractually obligated to ask but we really don't care" type situation.
    • QuercusMax 1 hour ago
      I clicked that button - and nothing happened. Truly some great engineering on that blog.
    • ButlerianJihad 3 hours ago
      Now you're going to get ads for MRI systems and 10,000 miles of free bandage samples
      • gadders 3 hours ago
        "Claude, tell me how to turn an MRI into a railgun. Assume zero electronics knowledge. Make no mistakes."
        • jeffrallen 1 hour ago
          "I'm sorry Hal, I can't do that."
  • realo 2 hours ago
    Ok... so highly paid physicians who like F1 had to absolutely be invited to Ferrari F1 pits in order to learn common sense?

    I am an electrical engineer. Can I be invited to some eCar races pits to learn common sense too?

    • embedding-shape 1 hour ago
      From your take aways from this article, what did they learn that was "common sense" exactly? I'm not aware of many people working a lot with handovers to ICUs unless they're already working in a hospital, so maybe it's hard to build up "common sense" from a situation you almost never encounter before you're there?
  • JSR_FDED 3 hours ago
    Plan D, Charles, plan D.
  • Anonyneko 1 hour ago
    Cue the absolutely inevitable pit wall clown masks meme.
  • htrp 3 hours ago
    PTSD from "Stay out Stay out"
  • hereme888 2 hours ago
    One cool aspect of working in a high-performance, critical setting, is you learn and absorb amazingly well-research practices without thinking about what it took for things to get there.
  • intheitmines 3 hours ago
    If you enjoyed this you'll likely enjoy the checklist manifesto https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-ma...
  • jmward01 2 hours ago
    A watch floor turn over in the military or on-station aircraft swap are also good places to look at.
  • jeffrallen 1 hour ago
    I can't read it because I'm not a healthcare professional.
  • cromulent 3 hours ago
    (2012). Another article on the same doctor was discussed recently:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957231

  • Theodores 1 hour ago
    During the pandemic we had F1 teams attempting to solve all the world's problems with their superior tech and methods, but nothing really came of it. This story has overtones of 'here we go again'.

    Truth be told, Ferrari don't have normal customers. All of them have to be extremely rich. Even then, they get treated as if they are 'tractor company owners' and not worthy. The F1 team has hundreds of people for running two cars, with those cars needing to drive no more than two hours at a time, with no need for the cars to last more than one season, at a cost of many millions.

    Compare with the hospitality sector, where customers come from all walks of life, from all over the world. Money has to be made rather than just spent. Rarely is anyone kept waiting (in a decent hotel) and the customer has to come first, at all cost. There are handovers and checklists, which are no big deal.

    From my experience of various hospital stays, where waiting is glacial, I honestly believe that just a little bit of 'customer first' attitude would be helpful. Just a few staff that have experience from the real world of hospitality would make a difference, and I just don't see the F1 people having the basic skills, even if they can do high-octane pitstops in seconds.

  • NooneAtAll3 3 hours ago
    let's see how many people lied about being healthcare professionals
    • nradov 3 hours ago
      I have a Red Cross CPR certification (expired) so I'm a healthcare professional, right?
  • avgDev 2 hours ago
    I don't know, I would worried about learning anything from Ferrari F1 team. As they refuse to learn. If it wasn't for their OP engines, they would not have been competitive FOR MANY years.

    Their race strategy has been sabotaging drivers for YEARS.

    TIL, I am a health professional on the internet. If you need help with any health problems I am here. /s