This may not be what you want to hear ... and I'm not sure what kind of person a consultant is, in the medical profession ...
...But I read an article recently about some people in the US tentatively proposing that maybe perhaps they should limit doctors to 80 hour weeks, instead of the 100-120 hour weeks they often work. And I thought to myself that mistakes must be rampant, and it's a wonder I don't see _more_ stories about people getting the wrong organs removed and things like that.
I don't know what things are like in NI. I guess they're not as bad ('cause the US is generally insane), but still pretty bad.
So I have a lot of sympathy for you, but I also have a lot of sympathy for doctors and nurses, who work long hours doing icky jobs in stressful conditions.
(on my recent interaction with the hospital here, every time I went to talk to a different person, they asked me my date of birth. It was pretty clear that that was a check to make sure they're xraying/etc the right person..)
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Date: 2009-09-30 06:27 am (UTC)...But I read an article recently about some people in the US tentatively proposing that maybe perhaps they should limit doctors to 80 hour weeks, instead of the 100-120 hour weeks they often work. And I thought to myself that mistakes must be rampant, and it's a wonder I don't see _more_ stories about people getting the wrong organs removed and things like that.
I don't know what things are like in NI. I guess they're not as bad ('cause the US is generally insane), but still pretty bad.
So I have a lot of sympathy for you, but I also have a lot of sympathy for doctors and nurses, who work long hours doing icky jobs in stressful conditions.
(on my recent interaction with the hospital here, every time I went to talk to a different person, they asked me my date of birth. It was pretty clear that that was a check to make sure they're xraying/etc the right person..)