Post #1230264
2026-04-08 13:04 UTC
Why would you cancel a surgery to do trash collection? Why not just make it so everyone has one day a week dedicated to chores, for example? We all do our chores at home, right? Why not for the benefit of our communities? The surgery can be scheduled for a day a surgeon is available. I'm sure there would be many surgeons in a world without student debt, enough for them each to spare a few hours mucking in just like everyone else, right?
I'm sure someone has the ability of figuring out some kind of schedule to ensure adequate emergency medical coverage despite medical personnel having other obligations. I know we can do that because we already do it. Surgeons take time off work and people don't die because of it.
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@trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2026-04-08 14:41
If you schedule that surgeon for garbage duty there won't always be another surgeon available, so you're basically telling the patient they have to wait to get surgery because the surgeon is on garbage duty. > Surgeons take time off work and people don’t die because of it. Actually this does happen. The workload for most surgeons is maxxed out to the point where taking less time off would cause more deaths because of errors due to exhaustion.