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There a black joke amongst doctors in the UK where all the junior doctors start in the same week each year the mortality rates go up :-)
by walshemj 9y ago
There a black joke amongst doctors in the UK where all the junior doctors start in the same week each year the mortality rates go up :-)
- paviva 9y agoIndeed, and it's not even a joke, but a real phenomenon. Sources : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2896592/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2896592/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21747093 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21747093
- pas 9y agoThen ... that means the supervision of residents is not working. That basically means, it's useless. (Since it'd make sense to apply the maximum amount of supervision when a resident is new and as the resident gains trust, decrease it.) Or of course it means, that attending doctors do a constant amount of (insufficient) supervision, or they ramp up supervision after someone screws up... :|