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Yep. That said, I don't believe charging them with manslaughter is the way to push back.
Oh, agreed. I suspect doing so would just exacerbate the supply/demand issue further.
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Just to share another perspective, doctors, and especially surgeons, save lives by the hour. Every minute they're not working, they forsake compensation of course, but more saliently, they are letting people die. Wouldn't you feel at least a bit compelled to work the extra odd hours here and there?
"Penny-wise, pound-foolish."
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Just to share another perspective, doctors, and especially surgeons, save lives by the hour. Every minute they're not working, they forsake compensation of course, but more saliently, they are letting people die. Wouldn't you feel at least a bit compelled to work the extra odd hours here and there?
> Wouldn't you feel at least a bit compelled to work the extra odd hours here and there? Not if doing so raises the risk to patients to an unacceptable level.
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Some doctors don't have a choice. My brother was on call this weekend and got called in Friday night at 10 P.M. and Saturday night at 2 A.M., then had to be back to work at 7 A.M. Sunday. Obviously sleep deprived, but there's nothing he specifically could do. This needs to change at an institutional level.
Coming from the nuclear industry, this sounds crazy, even compared to our outage culture. NRC says that you can work up to 16 hours, then you MUST go home for 8. It takes some paperwork to get a one-time exception.
(ii) 26 work hours in any 48-hour period; and
(iii) 72 work hours in any 7-day period.
As a 20 year operations shift supervisor this is still way too many work hours. Mistakes happen at the end of long shifts.
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Oh, agreed. I suspect doing so would just exacerbate the supply/demand issue further.
Why not? A pilot that works beyond their duty day will get a manslaughter charge if the flight results in the death of a passenger or person on the ground. Whats the difference?
Economically? Everything.
We have an oversupply of pilots, so we can afford to be harsh/abusive without fear of it boomeranging.
Interesting legend, tried to search for him on youtube and other places but nothing showed up. I'm not saying this man can't rap, but how can you call that being a legend if there isn't a single recording? Nowhere in the article is there a link or an embed to an example of his legendary rap.
> Like a true underground star, he shunned mainstream success. He did appear in a documentary about Leimert Park, not as a novelty act, but as a regular member of the crew. I believe this is the documentary the article refers to: http://www.leimertparkmovie.com There's a preview clip on that website that I believe shows him rapping as Dr. Flow: http://www.leimertparkmovie.com/media/06RonCarringtononThurs...
> He was tall and lean, ran six miles a day, and was a strict vegetarian. “I believe a physician should provide exemplary motivation to patients,” he once wrote. “I don’t smoke and have cut out all alcohol.” > “Sometimes I worked from 6 a.m. to 3 a.m.,” he recalled, adding that the pressures had cost him his first marriage. I don't understand how a medical doctor can fail to consider sleep deprivation and overworking…
Doctors are trained to believe that sleep deprivation isn't something that affects good doctors. During their residency, doctors routinely work 24 hour shifts. This goes back to William Halsted, who for all intents and purposes invented modern medical training at Hopkins. Halsted managed his always-on work ethic with his cocaine addiction, and drove his residents to the same extremes. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/…
wow I never considered how much of modern work culture has suffered from the influence of a minority of cocaine addicts
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Oh, agreed. I suspect doing so would just exacerbate the supply/demand issue further.
Why not? A pilot that works beyond their duty day will get a manslaughter charge if the flight results in the death of a passenger or person on the ground. Whats the difference?