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The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I think your inability to turn off notifications is artificial. There's no reason that these emergency calls can't go to a landline in a staffed hospital instead of directly to one specific doctor.

If the organization requires this, that's different from it actually being impossible to do otherwise.

If your hospitals are businesses, you as their employee are subsidising them. They could spend the money on an additional, qualified doctor, but they won't.

[–] notsoshaihulud 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So many assumptions...

  1. You assume that there aren't life or death exceptions/emergencies (see my updated post above).
  2. You assume that I only practiced medicine in the USA
  3. You assume that US hospitals run like businesses (private insurance companies, most hospitals don't)
  4. You assume doctors, especially subspecialists grow on trees.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No your context is very relevant

So you aren't required to be on call, you want to be on call. You want it because your patients are not well served by general practitioners, and providing 3rd parties the whole context of care they need is difficult.

That's fine.