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Or is it the other way around? Maybe it's the junior doctors that don't understand something that professional programmers _do_ about the limits of human endura
by galdosdi 10y ago
Or is it the other way around? Maybe it's the junior doctors that don't understand something that professional programmers _do_ about the limits of human endurance in skilled labor?
There's no way those 100 hour weeks and 36 hours shifts don't lead to a measurable increase in errors. Given that in medicine, errors can cost lives, it's morally reprehensible that anyone allows this kind of thing to go on in medicine today as a matter of course (outside of a true one-off emergency)
- barry-cotter 10y agoErrors do increase with length of shift but they also increase when continuity of care is disrupted by shift change. When you look at patient outcomes it's a wash. This probably speaks more to awful shift change procedures than anything else but reducing the hours junior doctors are fostered for has not lead to any improvement for patients. http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/26/fewer-hours-for-doctors-in-training-leading-to-more-mistakes/ http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/26/fewer-hours-for-doctor... I seem to recall surgery being an exception in that shorter shifts lead to more patients dying but I can't find anything quickly.
- robryan 10y agoPerhaps this is just convenient for employers. The real problem could be in shift change procedures but they aren't incentivised to fix this and lower shift times.