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Re:The Problem of Doctors’ Salaries by crimsonalucard on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:55AM (#15757728)
But there would still be a loss of information after 24 hours. Improving quality means upping the shift to 96 hours. We should encourage doctors to not sleep as sleeping means loss of information.

This totally makes sense.

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Re:The Problem of Doctors’ Salaries by yequalsx on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @11:11AM (#15757879)
So it's not reasonable for a person to work 96 hours. But apparently it is reasonable for 24 hours. The goal is to minimize information loss while maximizing performance. There's a tradeoff. Apparently 24 hours is a local max in this tradeoff.
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Re:The Problem of Doctors’ Salaries by paviva on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:37PM (#15760379)
Absolutely does. And that's precisely the reason why inpatients are treated by the same doctor for as long periods as is humanely possible, i.e. usually one-week stretches on call.
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