No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep
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No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep
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Re: No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep
#2I remember hearing about sleep deprivation in the medical field before; especially for people who work in the ER or as surgeons. The demand in the US for nurses and doctors is very high, and so are the education costs which can be prohibitive to people getting into medicine.
There's a whole system of failures, from the cost of education to the student loan systems to medical insurance and billing, that has led directly to overworked doctors. Many med students today feel that they can't become GPs because they simply won't make enough to pay back their student loans.
Re: No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep
#3I remember hearing about sleep deprivation in the medical field before; especially for people who work in the ER or as surgeons. The demand in the US for nurses and doctors is very high, and so are the education costs which can be prohibitive to people getting into medicine. There's a whole system of failures, from the cost of education to the student loan systems to medical insurance and billing, that has led direct…
The issue is that of management. The management profession has taken over hospitals and it runs those according to management practices. Overworked doctors are a result of (bad) management, and nothing else.
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#4Didn't they do a study and find that decreasing doctor hours caused an increase in patient mortality because of handoff errors? And that digitizing records didn't help because of a combination of inaccurate measurement by the staff and because of factors that can't be measured (intuitive observation, etc).
Re: No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep
#5I remember hearing about sleep deprivation in the medical field before; especially for people who work in the ER or as surgeons. The demand in the US for nurses and doctors is very high, and so are the education costs which can be prohibitive to people getting into medicine. There's a whole system of failures, from the cost of education to the student loan systems to medical insurance and billing, that has led direct…
The issue is that of management. The management profession has taken over hospitals and it runs those according to management practices. Overworked doctors are a result of (bad) management, and nothing else.
Except that management in hospitals are often doctors themselves (or influenced by the more senior doctors). One problem is that most doctors have gone through a residency with abusive hours - so it becomes hard to separate tradition from necessity.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-medical-resident-hours...
Re: No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep
#6Didn't they do a study and find that decreasing doctor hours caused an increase in patient mortality because of handoff errors? And that digitizing records didn't help because of a combination of inaccurate measurement by the staff and because of factors that can't be measured (intuitive observation, etc).
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
The issue is that of management. The management profession has taken over hospitals and it runs those according to management practices. Overworked doctors are a result of (bad) management, and nothing else.
Except that management in hospitals are often doctors themselves (or influenced by the more senior doctors). One problem is that most doctors have gone through a residency with abusive hours - so it becomes hard to separate tradition from necessity. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-medical-resident-hours...
Re: No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep
#8The medical system will disagree: all doctors should work 30 hours straight with no sleep, else they're not real doctors and slacking off.
Re: No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep
#9Didn't they do a study and find that decreasing doctor hours caused an increase in patient mortality because of handoff errors? And that digitizing records didn't help because of a combination of inaccurate measurement by the staff and because of factors that can't be measured (intuitive observation, etc).
Who is this they?
Re: No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep
#10Didn't they do a study and find that decreasing doctor hours caused an increase in patient mortality because of handoff errors? And that digitizing records didn't help because of a combination of inaccurate measurement by the staff and because of factors that can't be measured (intuitive observation, etc).
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