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Originally Posted by echoboy
DaveN007,
Dave, I gotta disagree with you on this one, buddy.  My "call" is in the hospital, so if I total the number of hours of sleep in a 24 hour shift as 3 hours, (which occurred 4 nights ago) that's usually split up into 20-40minutes segments of shuteye, not really sleep. I really may have really dozed off once or twice for those 20-40min powernaps. Most of us who are on call in the hospital don't really "sleep" b/c we know through experience that we never get an extended period of sleep in one sitting, we're always waiting for that phone/pager to go off, and we're deathly afraid of possibly sleeping through a page or overhead call and then hearing the judge say "Will the defendant please rise................" 
100hr workweeks?? Did that routinely during my internship, like most of the doctors on this board. Shucks, there were nights I never saw the inside of my callroom. Surgery residents used to have it even worse than that. Their calls were Guantanamo Bay like levels of cruelty.
Cheers,
Jim
P.S. - I'm typing this during the last 5 minutes of my 30 minute dinner break. Yes, I'm on call again. How 'bout that for dedication to the CC board!  |
I never could quite figure out the medical profession, and a few others, that pull these long stints as a routine. It's long been proven that efficiency goes down, and mistakes go up after a reasonable period of work (ie. 40hr/wk, 50, 60, etc). Maybe this doesn't apply to the medical types but I highly doubt it. What gives? Is the 'old boys' train of thought ('I trained that way so the young ones are going to suffer for it too, by gum'). Not being sarcastic with this but there has to be some reason for this - lack of staff? Compressed training? No life outside of work? (well, ok, that last one is tongue in cheek!)
