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Re:No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep by Spooky23 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @08:45PM (#13226156)
I would agree. In extended hospital sessions that my wife and I have experienced, having continuity was huge, especially as the nurses swap out every 8-12 hours.

In my case, I suffered from this issue after a back surgery when some dumbass hospitalist read my chart wrong and told the nurse to cut off pain medication 10 hours after a spinal fusion. I asked the nurse for meds after she woke me up at 3 AM (to take my blood pressure and ask if my birthday had changed) and she refused and essentially accused me of shopping for narcotics.

When my surgeon checked in on me at the start of his day (5AM), he was shocked and got things fixed.

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Re:No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep by rifung on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @02:39AM (#13227467)
> some dumbass hospitalist read my chart wrong

But couldn't this also be explained by said person lacking enough sleep?

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Re:No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep by mcv on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:45AM (#13236126)
> and ask if my birthday had changed

Er, why? This reeks of a pretty serious administrative fuck-up.

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Re:No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep by Spooky23 on Thursday December 22, 2016 @09:42PM (#13242403)
Around here, every interaction with a hospital employee involves a recitation of your birthdate, allergy status and other crap.

When my wife was having our baby, the nurses had to log into three different systems -- an OBstetrics system, the hospitals charting/EMR and the pharmaceutical system. That meant going through the ritual 3 times.

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