[savagedata]

The problem is with multiple-day recovery periods after the surgery. The later in the week your surgery is scheduled, the more likely you'll overlap with the weekend when care is hypothesized to be lower quality.

[danbolt]

Part of me also wonders if people who elect to have Monday surgeries are in a better socioeconomic place to take more time off to recover.

[joncrane]

I've had a bunch of surgeries and I wasn't given much of a choice as to when they were scheduled. These were orthopedic surgeries, but nothing urgent (stuff like a labrum repair or whatever). I was simply told to be at the hospital/surgery center at X time and that was that.