( Even the obamamessiah could not get doctors off the golf course on
weekends. )
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Why would anyone listen to a failed Obama economic adviser when it comes to
health care? Orszag wrote an op-ed in the New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/opinion/04orszag.html?_r=2>and demands
doctors to work weekends. Sounds like socialism to me.
Doctors, like most people, don’t love to work weekends, and they probably
don’t enjoy being evaluated against their peers. But their industry can no
longer afford to protect them from the inevitable. Imagine a drugstore open
only five days a week, or a television network that didn’t measure its
ratings. Improving the quality of health care and reducing its cost will
require that doctors make many changes — but *working weekends and
consenting to quality management are two clear ones.*
That’s why an effort at New York University Langone Medical Center to
institute both of these changes is so important. If it succeeds, it will
help point the way to the health care system of the future.
First, weekends. It’s never good to be hospitalized, but you *really* don’t
want to be hospitalized on a weekend. There are fewer doctors around, and
people admitted on Saturdays and Sundays fare relatively poorly.
One study in
2007<http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa063355#t=articleTop>
found,
for example, that for every 1,000 patients suffering heart attacks who were
admitted to a hospital on a weekend, there were 9 to 10 more deaths than in
a comparable group of patients admitted on a weekday. The weekend patients
were less likely to quickly receive the invasive procedures they needed —
like coronary artery bypass grafts or cardiac catheterization.
It’s not just a safety issue but, for less life-threatening medical
problems, also a matter of convenience.* Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to
schedule your elective surgery on a Saturday if you wanted? Most hospitals
don’t offer that option.*
Great idea. If the government can't chase off doctors fast enough with lower
Medicare/Medicaid payments, lets demand they work on the weekends. I'm sure
exhausted doctors will make less mistakes when operating on little sleep.
The government telling private citizens (doctors) how much money they will
get for their services and demanding that they work weekends. If this isn't
socialism, I don't know what is.
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