Overworked America

[tapati]

There are blue collar workers included in this story at Mother Jones, but this was interesting to me because I had thought that reducing the hours residents could work would make patients safer. But those hours just got passed on to the attendings. We're making medicine a pretty unattractive field to go into, aren't we? Not to mention endangering

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[kisekileia]

Sounds like they need to lower doctor:patient ratios.

[tapati]

yeah but dream on...the nurse/patient ratios also suck because we have a nursing shortage.

It's becoming so expensive to become a doctor here that less people are going into medicine.

The article also had some scary accounts by an air traffic controller about how dangerous it is for them to be short-staffed and short on sleep, and someone who works in a mental health facility about the dangers of not having enough personnel to safely subdue a violent patient.