| From my second link, above: with researchers likening the performance of someone awake for at least 17 hours to that of a drunk person. those who worked shifts 12.5 hours or longer were three times more likely than others to make an error in patient care. From your comment: My advice - stay healthy, just don't go to hospital unless you have to. At the end, just drop dead. The natives in Africa put a stop to the Ebola epidemic with a few policies to limit the spread. For starters: 1. If you got sick, they quarantined you. You were not to leave your hut. They would leave food on your doorstep. If three days of food piled up, they burned the hut to the ground without going inside to check if you were really dead or not. 2. They told their people "Don't go to the white man's hospital." Because you would show up with something fixable, like a broken leg, and die of Ebola contracted at the hospital. They also put up road blocks to control who could come into their territory. There may be a few other things I'm not remembering. I have a serious medical condition. I haven't seen a doctor in years. When I was seeing a doctor for it, the waiting room was always full of sick people and it was one of the more hazardous things I did. I sometimes spoke with people online who told stories that (for example) their kid with the same condition as me had picked up MRSA in their last hospital stay. We need some better models. The current system seems inherently flawed in important ways. |