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> Still, Jen Burke, a nurse at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, said it has become routine for her and her colleagues working in the ca
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago
> Still, Jen Burke, a nurse at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, said it has become routine for her and her colleagues working in the cardiac catheterization lab to have their 12-hour shifts extended because of a lack of staff or beds in other parts of the hospital.
I bet if the government mandated triple over time pay for safety critical procedures such as in medicine, the problem would rapidly fix itself.
- gus_massa 3y agoIt's ilegal for airplane pilots and truck drivers, because tired people make more mistakes that can kill someone. It should be ilegal for nurses and medical doctors, because ...
- batshibstein 3y agothe only thing worse than a tired nurse or doctor is no nurse or doctor at all. you can cancel a flight or a truck shipment (not great but feasible) -- you can't quite just cancel patients that are in the hospital.