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Leo Benedictus
Personal blog · leobenedictus.substack.comdatahealth
Leo Benedictus writes Interesting Data, a personal blog at leobenedictus.substack.com about data and health. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on the reasons hospital admission is most typically male or female, with admission counts sorted by diagnosis. Commenters quote the article and link a follow-up with the full data in a spreadsheet.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writing about the hidden patterns in everyday life.
Most-linked posts?
- /p/that-hospital-admissions-data-in2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-26
What Hacker News says?
Quoting the article: >I’m having to choose my words carefully, because I need to stress one thing: these are not the most common reasons for men and women to be admitted to hospital. They are the most typically male and typically female. If you go to https://leobenedictus.substack.com/p/that-hospital-admission... and sort by number of admissions, you get stuff like: - Personal history of certain other diseases - Per…
Comment linking /p/that-hospital-admissions-data-in
on “The most male and female reasons to end up hospital”Submitted The most male and female reasons to end up hospital as a story · 86 points
HN discussionThere's also a follow up that has full data in a spreadsheet like thing: https://leobenedictus.substack.com/p/that-hospital-admission...
Comment linking /p/that-hospital-admissions-data-in
on “The most male and female reasons to end up hospital”