Without over analysing the whole young-doctors-are-working-to-much-and-thus-committing-suicide thing, you would think that the answer is pretty simple to resolve:
1. Train more doctors
2. Put more money back into the public health system
I could go into rights I think doctors should have working in hospitals but I guess it would be perceived as grandstanding and bias, which is usually the response I get from people when I go about defending doctors rights.
Anyway in other news, I sure don't want to go to work tomorrow, shocking news I know!
1. Train more doctors
2. Put more money back into the public health system
I could go into rights I think doctors should have working in hospitals but I guess it would be perceived as grandstanding and bias, which is usually the response I get from people when I go about defending doctors rights.
Anyway in other news, I sure don't want to go to work tomorrow, shocking news I know!
posted by serp at 3:09 PM
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One of the main reasons I'm against entering a law firm is that a work week is about 80 hours long. And I'm not going to fuck with my sanity. Oh yeah, and I HATE LAW!
When one of my cousins was doing her residency, she had to work 100 hours a week. Sometimes for stretches of two days. The stress she was put under - physically especially - she was pregnant and her baby died at 33 weeks. It's fucked up and totally unreasonable. And dangerous! How are people expected to perform on no sleep?
IT engineering is getting that way too - 70 hours a week is not uncommon.
Yeah but with IT/Eng there are downtime periods and a lot of overtime work is doing certain periods of development, sorta like how tax people have to do a lot of overtime during certain periods of the year.
I think the main problem with medicine is the fact that doctors are burden with the fact that if they say "fuck it, I am going home", there won't be some other doctor out there to be 'snapped up' by the boss, basically going home could put peoples lives at risk.
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