Comments on: Do physician assistants need work-hour restrictions too? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/do-physician-assistants-need-work-hour.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/do-physician-assistants-need-work-hour.html/comment-page-1#comment-88732 Anonymous Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:20:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/12/do-physician-assistants-need-work-hour-restrictions-too.html#comment-88732 You see all those trucks parked on the interstate with the lights on. They're not stopping for the view. Airline pilots don't have all those days off in a month because they're just lucky. It wouldn't surprise me at all if someone tried to regulate attending work hours too. (They already do in anesthesia, BTW.) Good. People will realize when they can't even get the appointments they think are already too long to wait for that medicine was never a nine-to-five kind of occupation. Better yet, let someone show that rested attendings are safer attendings. It will be a real study of the law of unintended consequences. You see all those trucks parked on the interstate with the lights on. They’re not stopping for the view. Airline pilots don’t have all those days off in a month because they’re just lucky. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if someone tried to regulate attending work hours too. (They already do in anesthesia, BTW.) Good. People will realize when they can’t even get the appointments they think are already too long to wait for that medicine was never a nine-to-five kind of occupation. Better yet, let someone show that rested attendings are safer attendings. It will be a real study of the law of unintended consequences.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/do-physician-assistants-need-work-hour.html/comment-page-1#comment-88728 Anonymous Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:30:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/12/do-physician-assistants-need-work-hour-restrictions-too.html#comment-88728 What about attendings? Attendings may have priviliges at more than one hospital. What is to stop someone from working in clinic all day, taking call (and possibly operating) at night then then going to work the next day? Oh, lots of us do that already...<br/><br/>Is some organization going to limit the work hours of faculty MDs and non-academic MDs (and DOs?) How would this be enforced? And where are the extra docs going to come from? What about attendings? Attendings may have priviliges at more than one hospital. What is to stop someone from working in clinic all day, taking call (and possibly operating) at night then then going to work the next day? Oh, lots of us do that already…

Is some organization going to limit the work hours of faculty MDs and non-academic MDs (and DOs?) How would this be enforced? And where are the extra docs going to come from?

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