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A file photo of the Uber logo on a car in Washington, DC. Neurosurgeons realised that they weren’t doing as many emergency surgeries on Friday and Saturday nights at two o’clock in the morning, ‘probably because of Uber’, said Conner. — AFP

The light bulb moment for neurosurgeons came as they conducted patient rounds one morning in 2017.

“What we realised is that we weren’t doing as many emergency surgeries on Friday and Saturday nights at two o'clock in the morning,” Christopher Conner remembered with a smile from his hospital in the fourth-largest US city of Houston.

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