[HN Gopher] Cognitive Dissonance in the Medical Profession
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       Cognitive Dissonance in the Medical Profession
        
       Author : SlowOnTheUptake
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2022-07-01 21:54 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | fny wrote:
       | From what I can tell, burnout in the medical field is primarily a
       | symptom of too much work given to too few people. I'm not sure
       | how it can resolve without an increase in the medical labor
       | force.
        
         | ggm wrote:
         | The economics of the shift from productive labour (goods) to
         | service industry is 50+ years deep and we're still afraid to
         | talk openly about work, value, value adding, and hours.
         | 
         | Health economics is complicated. The primary barrier to more
         | health professionals in most economies is government funding
         | followed by restrictive practices in the industry certifying
         | new entrants, not that the certification per se is wrong, it's
         | the controls on rate of certification outcome which are the
         | problem: doctors don't want dilution of income. The hours suck
         | but the money is good.
         | 
         | They definitely need to work less, especially junior doctors
         | and registrars in hospital. The hours are dangerously insane,
         | life threatening for doctor and patient alike and it's no
         | different in nursing: there's a reason nurses go locum and
         | supply over contracted and it's bound up in stupid health
         | economics.
         | 
         | (Not in medicine, I read this. Happy if people in the field
         | correct me)
        
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