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> All that does is ensure no one gets fairly compensated for 12+ hours work, and shifts the complexity down the chain to accountants as people managers try to f
by GordonS 6y ago
> All that does is ensure no one gets fairly compensated for 12+ hours work, and shifts the complexity down the chain to accountants as people managers try to find other ways to compensate people for their extra effort. People don't stop being sick 12 hours in.
Sorry, but this stance seems like part of the problem.
Doctors shouldn't be working more than 12 hours at a time, for rather obvious safety reasons. People don't stop being sick, sure - that means you change the system so there are more doctors working fewer hours, rather than making doctors work insane hours that risk patients and are terrible for doctors' mental health and wellbeing.
- salawat 6y agoI thought I replied to you earlier. My apologies. I'm not advocating that doctors should work 12+ hour shifts. Merely that creating a regulation that caps doctoring to 12 hours max a day will tend to create an enhanced scrutiny and sensitivity to what is and is not doctoring; which will lead to unintuitive outcomes in terms of the actual effect of the regulation based on the difference between how the industry runs with it vs. How you actually think it's going to go.
- GordonS 6y agoI understood what you mean: doctors shouldn't have to work 12 hour shifts, but should be able to. And I disagree with this, for 2 reasons: 1. It's unsafe to have doctors working for too long, even if they want to for some reason 2. It incentivizes management to make doctors work longer shifts (as the current situation is) I also disagree that making this change would somehow cause confusion about who is a doctor or not - there are already regulations governing the medical profession, so no ambiguity.