i am completely in love with the jenna and julien fam so i just had to draw their four furry children!! honestly why watch anything else on youtube when their videos exist š
#sometimes you have to put on your prettiest outfit and get sentenced to death in the midst of the french revolution just to have a chance to ask your crush out on a date
When EMTs and film/tv production crew comment on twitter threads about Amazon warehouse working conditions like “I work 12 hour shifts too, suck it up” like…………guys. You shouldn’t be working 12 hour shifts either. As few people as possible should be working 12 hour shifts
THIS. Medical professions ESPECIALLY.
Ok but I really, really don’t want to be treated by a medical professional who’s on the later end of a 12 hour shift?! Like that isn’t even just about worker’s rights, an exhausted EMT or nurse or surgeon is a lot more likely to mess up and get their patients killed, who the fuck thought shifts like that were a good idea
So, person who works in the medical field here, and while many jobs within the hospital (like my own) should be performed by people NOT working insane amounts of hours (my department would love if they could squeeze more work out of us, so we have a similar problem), there is a ton of research put into doctors, nurses, and surgeons who work extremely long shifts. There have been whole studies on it, actually, some of which are still on-going!
“A 2014 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that even though doctor-in-training shifts had been slashed by nearly half in many cases, there were no significant differences between the number of errors committed by the well-rested doctors and those committed by doctors two years before shift regulations were put in place.
One of the major reasons for this is the risk that changing a patient’s doctor poses. This routine is known as a “patient handoff” in the medical profession. Handoffs require a lot of clear communication on every detail about a patient’s condition, prognosis, and treatment. When multiplied by the number of patients usually under a doctor’s care, it’s virtually guaranteed that details will be lost without a robust and organized method in place for communicating them. Up to 80 percent of serious medical errors can trace their origin to miscommunication during patient handoffs.”
so while many many jobs are ridiculously over-working their employees to unsafe degrees, its misinformation to say that a nurse or surgeon is more likely to mess up and get their patients killed. Its just one of those exceptions that come with differing occupations.
