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bearboiblake@pawb.social 9 hours agoWhy would you interrupt 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?
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
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.
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.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 7 hours ago
Okay, so at worst the system would be as bad as the currently one, but with more surgeons because education would be free, and healthcare would be free, no medical debt, and so on. Do you realize that Cuba has socialized medicine and their health outcomes are far better than the United States? There are cures for lung cancer and alzheimers available in Cuba not available anywhere in the west, despite the US imposed blockade and decades of terrorism?
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yes, I’m not in the US. And Cuban surgeons don’t have garbage duty.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 6 hours ago
This is a really silly discussion at this point, so I’m just going to leave it here. If you truly think that people would die just because surgeons have to do a few hours of chores every week, I’m not going to try and change your mind on that. Have a great day, much love, solidarity forever!