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.
The study only concludes that this manner of handing off is risky, nothing more. Going “our method of handing off is bad, so we will extend work hours and continue handing off in the same way” is piss-poor conclusion. Change the way things are handed off e.g let the physician tail the other physician for 1hour to 30 minutes into their shift, improve the data collection and data display methods to allow a clear patient status to be shown, etc.
Additionally, the study doesn’t compare handoff risk to work-length risk. You’re taking one single data point and drawing wide-ranging conclusions from it.