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0 pointsblfr3y ago0 comments

Nah, in completely socialized systems doctors and nurses also usually want to have weekends and evenings off, hospitals aren't staffed as well as during business hours, and people try to limit the workload on their colleagues remaining on duty.

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mahogany3y ago

The contrast to "the US hospital business" is not necessarily "socialized systems". A better contrast is, as the original commenter pointed out, birthing centers (or home births). A contrast to a hospital OBGYN in the US is a certified nurse midwife.

bombcar3y ago

Even midwife systems often end up with a "ball of midwives" where you may not even know who you're going to get, and then they go off the clock at 6 PM and someone new steps in.

Everything is a cost/benefit/availability tradeoff, and time is just one of the many variables that are being juggled.

Of course, if you have money to throw at the problem you can reduce the other issues.

Xeoncross3y ago

As far as I'm aware, the majority of US midwives (or CPM's) are not hospital nurse midwives. They do not go off-the-clock, though they sometimes have multiple patients due at the same time so you might still find a backup midwife is covering for your primary care provider.

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gowld3y ago

Kind of a circular argument to say that we are seeing an increase in birthing centers because the practice of medicine in recent years reduced the use of birthing centers.

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