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by Quinzel
873 days ago
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I don’t think it has anything to do with handovers. I don’t think you’ll find many doctors that are avoiding going home because they don’t want to do a handover. I think you over estimate how much they actually care. Health care people are not massively empathetic hero’s who are willing to sacrifice their personal lives for the sake of saving the lives of strangers. They may have started out like that - but no… healthcare is literally a job, and at the end of the shift we all just want to go home and not think about anything to do with work. It’s to do with the following things:
1. Lack of trained staff to take over
2. Lack of money to pay trained staff to take over. I work in healthcare. I often get held hostage to shifts because there is no one qualified to take over at the end of my shift. Other painful truths about healthcare workers: we aim to save all lives because the paperwork involved with a death is the worst task ever. Avoid paperwork at all costs. |
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But what are the historical roots of these long doctor shifts? The same healthcare economics weren't in place when this practice was instituted. Why was this practice put in place way back when?