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Originally Posted by porsche4life
It still amazes me that we accept this as normal in the medical field. A truck driver legally has to stop driving after 14 hours at work, but we make doctors work weeks on end getting 3-4hrs sleep or less and expect them to operate in high stress environments with people’s lives at stake all the time. Just crazy that there aren’t more rules about how long that shift is.
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I suspect there is an element of hazing in there.
The current doctors went through it, so the new ones have to do it as well. I can see the teaching to work under pressure, and in some emergencies, working insane hours is just necessary. But there really should be limits on it.
Medical errors cause an estimated 250,000 deaths in the United States annually. If that was car crashes or gun deaths there would be marches in every city demanding something be done.
Yet anytime I am sick, I am going to see my doctor, and not some acupuncture, faith healer, chiropractor, or holistic scammer. I want science on my side.