Talk about a long weekend:
"More than 3,000 patients are dying every year because of short staffing in hospitals at weekends."
In fact, a recent study found that more Brits die due to understaffed hospitals than accidents, primarily because there's a shortage of experienced physicians.
Sound familiar?
And the problem just keeps getting worse for the Much Vaunted National Health Service©:
"Just weeks ago, another study found the out-of-hours GP service was not fit for purpose as trusts were not checking whether stand-in doctors could speak English properly and even whether they were medically competent."
This on the heels of a visiting German doc who, on his very first shift, managed to kill a senior citizen. The underlying problem is that the service just doesn't pay enough for experienced physicians to work a weekend shift.
There's an easy fix, though: just be sure to put off "heart attacks, heart failure, stroke, some cancers and aortic aneurysms" until Monday.
"More than 3,000 patients are dying every year because of short staffing in hospitals at weekends."
In fact, a recent study found that more Brits die due to understaffed hospitals than accidents, primarily because there's a shortage of experienced physicians.
Sound familiar?
And the problem just keeps getting worse for the Much Vaunted National Health Service©:
"Just weeks ago, another study found the out-of-hours GP service was not fit for purpose as trusts were not checking whether stand-in doctors could speak English properly and even whether they were medically competent."
This on the heels of a visiting German doc who, on his very first shift, managed to kill a senior citizen. The underlying problem is that the service just doesn't pay enough for experienced physicians to work a weekend shift.
There's an easy fix, though: just be sure to put off "heart attacks, heart failure, stroke, some cancers and aortic aneurysms" until Monday.
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