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Re:Navy Returns to Compasses and Pencils to Help Avoid Colli... by Broken_Hippo on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:49AM (#15384746)
Being on call for 30 hours might as well be the same. All it takes is one patient that has a few emergencies in a short time frame for the sleep to get messed up. We have better regulations for train engineers and conductors - all for safety. My uncles do it, and my brother did for a while. Always on call, but once their shift starts, there is a strict limit on how long their shift is and a strict limit to how long they have free to sleep.
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Re:Navy Returns to Compasses and Pencils to Help Avoid Colli... by dnautics on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:49PM (#15386707)
there have definitely been cold, calculating, studies done on the cost/benefit of doctor sleep to shift changeover ratios, and I don't know if it's 30 hours, but i do recall that it does not comport to your 'feel good' notions of how much a doctor should sleep.
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