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notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Headline reads: “i turned off ALL notifications forever”.

My take: there exist people who can’t do that.

Your take: US bad.

My take: not a US-specific issue.

Your take: please describe your call schedule in detail because your claim is unusual.

Thank you, but no thank you.

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MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
As a Dr’s kid nothing you have said sounds unusual for your job. My dad didnt like getting calls asking for free care but he was more than happy to run to the neighbors house when my buddy, aged 5, called at 3am and said “The baby is blue!”. That baby is 45 years old now and not blue.

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- Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Tbh suddenly changing skin color is nothing normal for humans
  
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  - MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    And it’s great my buddy’s first thought was that my dad lived a block away and is a doctor.
    
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bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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.

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- notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  So many assumptions…
  
  You assume that there aren’t life or death exceptions/emergencies (see my updated post above).
  
  You assume that I only practiced medicine in the USA
  
  You assume that US hospitals run like businesses (private insurance companies, most hospitals don’t)
  
  You assume doctors, especially subspecialists grow on trees.
  
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