I started surgery on Thursday at 7am. So of the last 108 hours, I have been at the hospital, working not sleeping, for almost 70 of them. I counted.
EWTD my arse! Tee hee! I'm not a fan of reducing doctor's hours really - we need the training, especially in things like surgery - but why the huge pretence? My hospital hires locums for the weeks that we are being "monitored" and then suddenly stops hiring them when the clipboards have left. If we give in a form saying we have gone over hours we are called into an office and told to change it to say every minute extra we spent is of our own accord for learning purposes as "we are not being told to stay". They don't seem to realise, or care, that it's actually jobs for patients that we are filling our time up with. If we don't do them, the patient might as well be at home. Why bother with all of these silly forms and hours monitoring? What's the point of all the deception?
