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bsder 2 days ago

Sarcasm simply serves to undermine any valid points that you have.

The point was that "on call" is specifically confined as an expectation only to certain types of doctors or under very urgent circumstances.

In addition, doctors have extra special dysfunctions like "too many hours in a shift".

However, many of these are because doctors also have been fighting various efforts to teach more of them which would enable distributing the required extra labor across more people.

doubleg72 2 days ago | parent [-]

Funny, my wife is primary care yet does on call via answering service. You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about.

bsder a day ago | parent [-]

Funny, I chose that gall bladder example precisely because I had it happen to me.

In addition, I had something similar happen where I wound up needing Interventional Radiology to insert a drain--again wound up waiting from Friday to Monday morning.

I'm sure some of those doctors were "on call". However, nobody was calling them in unless I started dying.