Many health professionals are emphatic regarding the need to eliminate this type of practice, although others have their doubts regarding this highly debated issue and the need to continue implementing it.
The need for 24-hour shifts by doctors is one of the most debated topics today. Photo: Shutterstock.
An emergency physician wanted to clarify that before the concept of guardia “It was a completely different one.” For this reason, he has denounced that at present it is regarding “uninterrupted working days of 24 hours“.
That is the reason for sharing his deep rejection towards these practices: “A NO the size of a cathedral” and has maintained that there are many arguments once morest it: “patient safety, mi mental health and physics and pure professional dignity”.
A NO the size of a cathedral. For patient safety, for my mental and physical health, and for sheer professional dignity.
The guard concept was a completely different one. Now they are uninterrupted working days of 24 hours.— Dr. Luis (@Dr_Luis) May 24, 2022
In fact, most of the comments regarding las guards are going down that same path, the immense fatigue and the danger that this entails, in addition to the numerous sequels produced by this type of days.
In addition to the insecurity they generate, an R3 of Family Medicine He wanted to focus on the sacrifice that it entails for the doctors: “It makes the professional lose almost three days. The followingnoon of the day before because you do nothing to not be tired, the one on duty and the one on the outgoing for not being a person “. Finally, he has concluded: “It’s not worth it.”
No. Absolutely not. A 24-hour shift is unsafe for the patient, but it also makes the professional lose almost three days. The followingnoon of the day before because you don’t do anything to not be tired, the one on duty and the one on the outgoing for not being a person. Not worth it.
– Rubén Blanco (@RBlancoMFyC) May 24, 2022
However, not all professionals agree with this complete rejection of the guards 24 hours. For his part, the neurologist Arturo Cruz-Culebras considers that it is a “not easy” debate. In his opinion, the need or not of this type of practice It should be assessed according to different factors: “It depends on the specialty, the complexity, the place, the volume, the type of hospital”.
Well, it depends on the specialty, the complexity, the place, the volume, the type of hospital. not easy discussion
— Antonio Cruz-Culebras (@CulebrasCruz) May 24, 2022
On the other hand, a emergency room doctor Primary Care He has confessed that, although he believes that the majority of the toilets are once morest it and that if a referendum were held it would come out that they do not want this type of guards, “the enemies of removing them are ourselves.”
At this point, he has detailed that two of the reasons that lead some health professionals to support this type of practice is, firstly, money and, secondly, the preference for more continuous work instead of less work but more assiduous.
Although most of us say NO, then the enemies of removing them are ourselves, firstly because of the money and secondly because we prefer to work more at once than less and more assiduously.
— Ismael M_D (@ismaelmdiaz) May 24, 2022
“From what I see around me, none of us want to do shifts, if it’s a long time, if it’s tired, at night… But then hardly anyone would be willing to do 12-hour shifts because economically it’s better to do 24-hour shifts and because it is preferable to “take” your guard out of the way instead of going to work almost every day”, he concluded.
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