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Re:First-year doctors will be allowed to work 24-hour shifts... by unabridged on Friday March 10, 2017 @01:51PM (#13840978)
Instead of 1 doctor working 75 hrs, how about 5 doctors working 15 hrs? And don't tell me there aren't enough candidates, the average acceptance rate for med schools is about 7%. Also its possible that there are people that would make great doctors but aren't in the top 10% of memorizing biology.
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Re:First-year doctors will be allowed to work 24-hour shifts... by JshWright on Friday March 10, 2017 @02:02PM (#13841080)
Longer shifts reduce the numbers of times a patient is passed from one provider to another. Reducing those "handoffs" is good for the patient (that tends to be where things fall through the cracks).
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Re:First-year doctors will be allowed to work 24-hour shifts... by unabridged on Friday March 10, 2017 @02:14PM (#13841173)
It doesn't have to be 15 hrs, it can be 30 hrs. You can have systems like all patients covered by 3 doctors and only 1 of 3 handoff at a time.
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