Today I learnt that doctors are no longer encouraged to use the term compliance with treatment, but should rather use the term adherence to treatment.
It’s hard to believe we used to say compliance, now that I think of it.
Today I learnt that doctors are no longer encouraged to use the term compliance with treatment, but should rather use the term adherence to treatment.
It’s hard to believe we used to say compliance, now that I think of it.
There is a hospital crisis in many places in Europe and it’s quite bad in Ireland. It’s a complicated situation. In the midst of this, one of Dublin’s major hospitals decided they won’t pay interns overtime.
Some background. Interns work anywhere between an average of 45 and 80 hours per week in my experience. I assume the hospital will pay for the on-call time (i.e. scheduled overtime), but not overtime done on regular days.
A lot of people who follow my education platform are interested in medicine. I decided to ask a question:
First, it doesn’t help the doctors’ wages that people who want to do medicine are ok with working for free.
More interestingly, I found that there was a big divide between men and women. There is an all out war at the moment on whether this gap is at least in part explained by the choices that women make (e.g. 1 vs 2).
In the sample, there were 241 women and 57 men. The sex of 7 voters was unknown.
Of the men who voted, 82.4% said no. Of the women, 69.7% said no.
Surely this is contributing to the gender pay gap?
Of the yes voters, 12.0% were male. Of the no voters, 21.9% were male.
Why? Some theories. The ones that are highlighted are the ones I feel are more plausible.
Problems: