‘You won't be paid, but need to stay here anyway’: Team of physicians are told by boss ‘not leave the clinic’ during unpaid work hours

On the one hand, you don't want to be a cog in a machine, on the 9-5 grind, wondering why you ever wanted to work in corporate, but on the other hand, you really don't want to work in healthcare, where the hours are long, the work demanding, the patients rude, low pay, poor benefits, and know-it-all bosses. These are some of the complaints I heard from my own friends who were going through a particularly grueling residency when first becoming doctors. According to them, they over-idealized the field as something otherworldly, magical, immune from the issues that most working-class and middle-class had.

As shared by u/illCut, who works in Columbian healthcare as a physician, they had 4 12-hour shifts per week, 2 days and 2 nights. Their hours were recently reduced, due to the country changing some rules. This reduction was supposed to happen gradually, one hour per year. The team of physicians that OP was working with all agreed that the most logical course of action was for the clinic to pay them that hour as overtime. It would save the clinic the time that it would take to hire new staff to make up for those hours.

But of course, predictably, the clinic told the physicians that it was too much money, and instead opted to tell them to take that hour only on their night shifts, between the wee hours of 1 to 4 AM. Great, thought OP. Just… great.

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