Are these really the people that should be required to work so much? Isn’t their job about handling life and death daily? Wouldn’t we want exactly these people to come fully rested to work every single day and be fully staffed?
I don’t know if there are jobs with similar stakes that are so carelessly staffed and disgustingly paid.
No one does this outside of the USA. It is not at all normal, just like being stuck with the imperial system of measurements.
What are you talking about? I live in Europe and this is standard. I know midwives, nurses, and doctors and they have the worst work schedules. I think in France health workers can even be prohibited from striking. The government declared it an “essential” job and when there aren’t enough workers, striking isn’t allowed. THey are always understaffed, so they aren’t allowed to strike. GReat eh?
En France vous avez des lois qui limitent le maximum des heures travaillés par semaine. Oui dans des cas éxtraordinaire c’est possible de les ignorer, mais c’est une grande difference en comparaison avec les états-unis, où ils travaillent pendant 24h sans pause comme c’est une chôse normal
Not really true. At least in Germany, the health workers are also extremely overworked. From nurses to surgeons. It’s a big problem
Source: family and friends who work there
In Deutschland gibt es eine gesetzliche wöchentliche Höchstarbeitszeit. Ja die kann in Notfällen undso überschritten werden, aber die Leute arbeiten nicht oft 24h am Stück ohne Pause als wäre das etwas völlig normales
In theory, absolutely. Sadly, not always followed
How many hospital administrators making 7 figures are working 24hr shifts?
I’ve worked with surgeons in US and Europe. It is definitely worse in the US but surgical culture is also like this in Europe just to a slightly lesser degree.
It’s deeply rooted in medical / surgical culture and much of it comes from not wanting to pay for more of these highly trained workers when you can just squeeze more out of a smaller cohort. Issues with handoffs for patient care are real with shift type work, but this could be improved if it became more standard.
Gen Z is a bit more concerned about these kinds of issues so some changes may be happening soon, but ultimately this will not likely ever self regulate and only legislative changes would effectively change this culture.
It is simply the law.
For example, in Switzerland, no employee may work more than 45 hours per week in the normal case (there are exceptions). Even if the employee and employer agree to ignore this, the employer will get absolutely rekt by the (mandatory) insurance if anything happens to the employee - even an accident in the employee’s free time.
It’s not the same, but similar, in other European countries.
Surprise! Everybody in the world is stuck with imperial system. Got a car that’s all metric? Wheels and tires are in inches. (Yes metric tires are still using inch rim measurements) Every tool on planet earth weather the sockets are sae or metric? All turned by a 1/4, 3/8ths or 1/2 in ratchet. Clearance too tight on ur bottom end bearings? Measured in thousandths of inch. I could go on, but it is incredible what imperial leftovers there are all over the planet that persist through time!
There’s a not-so-small difference between weird and annoying leftovers in specific areas and going all in with it in everyday life and still teaching it to every child.
Right, I was just highlighting the fact that globally we ARE still stuck with imperial system for shit that gets used daily! I can’t fathom why we haven’t moved to centimeters for rim measurements, and why so much machining is still done in thousandths of inch. There’s also no good excuse as to why every lathe and CNC machine on planet earth has 1/2 in chuck keys instead of 13 mm, why ratchets use a 3/8ths drive instead of 10mm. It’s just instilled from decades of use and nobody does anything about getting away from it in automotive or tooling! I’m sure there’s lots of other weird leftovers in other fields, just naming the ones I work with on a daily basis. At least nobody is producing shit with whitworth standards anymore, although I do occasionally have the misfortune of having to work with that as well.