[julianlam]

I feel like this is an excuse more than anything. If there are higher complication or medical error rates as a result of patient handoffs, the solution isn't to make the medical team work longer hours, it's to fix miscommunications wrt the handoff process.

[slg]

I completely agree, but this isn't a new problem in medicine. If we couldn't fix it during normal times, I doubt we are going to fix it during a pandemic when staff are already overworked.

[nradov]

How specifically would you propose to fix miscommunications? Communication itself takes time, whether it's entering data in an EHR or talking 1:1 with your shift replacement. Time spent on communication is time not spent on delivering direct patient care.