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Re:First-year doctors will be allowed to work 24-hour shifts... by jgamman on Friday March 10, 2017 @01:32PM (#13840842)
love the orwellian way this is spun as to how it is letting doctors do another 4 hours on top of the current pathetic 20. no @%^@%#$ way i'd let myself be diagnosed by someone 23 hours into their shift, let alone do a procedure requiring basic hand eye co-ordination.
Re:First-year doctors will be allowed to work 24-hour shifts... by JshWright on Friday March 10, 2017 @02:20PM (#13841227)
How many times would you want to be passed off from one "primary" provider to another over the course of 24 hours? Those handoffs are where things falls through the cracks...

Allowing doctors to work fewer, longer shifts is correlated with increased happiness for the docs (they end up with actual days off), and no increased risk for patients.

http://www.absurgery.org/default.jsp?news_trial0216

Re:First-year doctors will be allowed to work 24-hour shifts... by maxerickson on Friday March 10, 2017 @01:47PM (#13840953)
So if you are bleeding profusely you are going to ask?

And then refuse stitches if there is no other doctor available?