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> Human doctors were historically put on call for up to 24 hours at a time as part of their learning process in part so they would see a patient's condition evo
by 908B64B197 6y ago
> Human doctors were historically put on call for up to 24 hours at a time as part of their learning process in part so they would see a patient's condition evolve over time while the doctor was still young and healthy enough to endure this grueling process. Having seen it for a time as part of their training, they retained that knowledge when they were older and could recognize a stage of a moving target.
Isn't it more because, unlike most other fields, the medical field systematically refuses to learn best practices to hand-over information? So they prefer to have a heavily sleep-deprived resident they can abuse rather than a better way to document and to pass information.