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by bshep
728 days ago
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What would happen if doctors simply refused to do more then 60 hours a week? -> you can get sued for patient abandonment if you refuse to followup on a patient you are responsible for Is there really enough supply of new doctors coming in that the hospital can just fire them all and replace them with doctors willing to burn themselves out? -> in part yes there are ( in some fields) but what would happen is that patients would be shifted to other facilities that have staff to see the patients, also when you have 400-500k of school debt its hard to refuse work Or would it mean the hospital would have no choice but to hire additional doctors so that each one would only have to work a sustainable number of hours? -> this happens as well, they hire locum tenens docs to fill in gaps ( higher short term expense in exchange for not giving staff docs what they need) |
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Sure, but that isn't the case in this linked article, it seems. Being on call for emergencies, doing elective surgeries, refusing to do that doesn't count as patient abandonment as i understand it. Only when you are actively taking care of someone can you not leave them.
> in part yes there are ( in some fields) but what would happen is that patients would be shifted to other facilities that have staff to see the patients, also when you have 400-500k of school debt its hard to refuse work
Ah, yeah then that's the main problem. There's such an excess of supply that hospitals can afford to treat doctors like crap. Same idea Amazon has about its workers. In that case, hopefully articles like this will make people realize becoming a doctor is a bad choice, and reduce the supply and allow stronger employee bargaining positions.
Of course stronger regulations would always be a better option for this case, but i don't see that happening.