2024-01-17 17:38:07
Through videos, medical students and doctors show how long and intense their workdays can be.
The clips, spread on social networks, are so popular that they have even started a trend in which the “before and after” of doctors in their jobs are shown, in addition to helping to start an intense debate about their working conditions.
Doctors show what they look like before and after an on-call: viral videos
More recently, medical students and doctors have decided to show the reality of how arduous their work can be.
With the “before and after shift” trend, they portray how they look at the beginning and end of their work day.
Medical shifts are what the long work shifts of some doctors in hospitals are called. This is an especially common practice among medical students, called residents, who, at a minimum, must spend between 24 and 36 hours in a hospital.
During these shifts, doctors must care for patients, in addition to carrying out academic and healthcare activities, so their rest is minimal.
Patient Service Network explains that medical practitioners are called residents because, years ago, they were asked to live in hospitals to be ready to deal with any emergency.
In the United States, medical students cannot work more than 80 hours a week, their days must not last more than 24 hours, nor can they have on-call more frequently than every third day, according to Patient Service Network. However, this may vary and have exceptions depending on the specialty being studied.
In Mexico, however, the law does not establish a maximum number of hours that residents can work in a hospital.
The proof of how exhausting the guards can be is in their tired faces, exhausted gestures or voices, and even the fact that they can fall asleep practically anywhere, as recorded in the videos published on social networks.
Internet users react to videos of before and after a doctor’s shift
The trend of showing the beginning and end of a doctors’ day helped start a whole discussion on social networks about the working conditions of students and workers in the health sector.
On the one hand, many Internet users applauded their dedication, while others condemned being forced to work like this:
“Admiration and gratification to the doctors”, “Labor exploitation is also seen like this”, “Wouldn’t it be risky for the patients if the doctor is overworked, tired from such a long day?”, “It is incredible how hard they work for how little they earn”, “It makes me so sick that they have to work so much when they manage something so vital, I hope they can improve their conditions”, “Why romanticize the fact that they are brought in as slaves?”, “The vocation is not a justification for overexploitation” or “They failed to say that they don’t eat or go to the bathroom, they sleep on the floor, they swallow rudeness from the resident doctors,” were some of the messages in that sense.
Other doctors were present in the comments, remembering their marathon days:
“A guard is watching your life slip away in hours, but a coffee saves you,” “I was on guard in an emergency for 96 hours. 48 were punishment, a gift from my chief resident”, “Memories of Vietnam”, “The longest I have been on guard duty is 40 hours”, “The longest I have lasted on guard duty is 26 hours”, “I “I arrive on a Saturday at 3 pm and leave on a Monday at 9 am.”
What do you think the before and after videos of a medical guard changed your perspective on doctors?
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