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For some reason, society has this observational attitude about these practices. It’s not clear to me at all while medical institutions think doctors and nurses
by code_duck 7y ago
For some reason, society has this observational attitude about these practices. It’s not clear to me at all while medical institutions think doctors and nurses need to work excessive amounts of hours in a row with no rest.
- retiredcoder 7y agoI guess real doctors can be more precise than me here. However, at where I live only doctors working with trauma/ER work long hours. From what I understand, that’s mostly to work around the overhead of context switch and patient hand over. For my friend, a lot of stress came from the responsibility, which might not be well distributed across specializations (hence the insurance premiums, etc).
- code_duck 7y agoIt just doesn’t seem to me that having a doctor who has been awake for 22 hours straight is preferable to handing the patient over to a doctor who has slept within the last day.