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Do you have children? Irrelevant, the nature of your reason to refuse to work outside of scheduled hours is between you and your conscience. Be it a child, a
by Ntrails 11y ago
Do you have children?
Irrelevant, the nature of your reason to refuse to work outside of scheduled hours is between you and your conscience. Be it a child, a dog, opera tickets, or Friday Night Magic - the rules have to be the same. Being a parent doesn't absolve you of responsibilities to patients nor does not being a parent increase your obligations to work additional hours.
Her disinterest in finding someone to cover is disappointing in a healthcare professional - but otherwise "I can't stay late tonight" is fine unless contractually you are on call.
- niels_olson 11y ago> "I can't stay late tonight" is fine unless contractually you are on call. This is potentially a reasonable point. If the surgeon can't make a compelling case to the on-call anesthetist that the case needs to be done, then the anesthetist present has a reasonable argument. That said, I've found that day shift staff may well stay late to handle a case they had already prepped for if that would prevent an up-prepped on-call from having to come in an hour later.