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[-] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago

How's the most expensive healthcare in the world supposed to be a convincing example?

[-] notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

it's neither a US- nor a profession-specific issue. it's an issue of any high-stakes, relatively niche occupation.

[-] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

Not really any one, most sectors have office hours, schedules, on-call rotation etc.

It's unusual to saddle a single person with 24/7 required availability. Do you not have a single colleague you can rotate after hours calls with?

[-] notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Headline reads: "i turned off ALL notifications forever".

My take: there exist people who can't do that.

Your take: US bad.

My take: not a US-specific issue.

Your take: please describe your call schedule in detail because your claim is unusual.

Thank you, but no thank you.

[-] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah I think your inability to turn off notifications is artificial. There's no reason that these emergency calls can't go to a landline in a staffed hospital instead of directly to one specific doctor.

If the organization requires this, that's different from it actually being impossible to do otherwise.

If your hospitals are businesses, you as their employee are subsidising them. They could spend the money on an additional, qualified doctor, but they won't.

[-] notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

So many assumptions...

  1. You assume that there aren't life or death exceptions/emergencies (see my updated post above).
  2. You assume that I only practiced medicine in the USA
  3. You assume that US hospitals run like businesses (private insurance companies, most hospitals don't)
  4. You assume doctors, especially subspecialists grow on trees.
[-] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No your context is very relevant

So you aren't required to be on call, you want to be on call. You want it because your patients are not well served by general practitioners, and providing 3rd parties the whole context of care they need is difficult.

That's fine.

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