Read in The Star today "Day Off After 24-Hour Duty".
KUALA TERENGGANU: Trainee doctors will now get a day off after carrying out their 24-hour on-call duty.
Health Minister Datuk Liow Tiong Lai said the directive will take effect immediately.
He said it applies only to housemen on active call and at the hospital the entire time.
This is really a good news to all the HO's out there, and those HO's-to-be! ;)
And so, there is no more excuse of saying tired and not attending to the patients in the wee hours (I have experience seeing some HOs who were just so tired, that they asked the nurses if the cases were acute/urgent... if not, they would see the patients later, ie. after a few hours' sleep!)
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