[mylife]

The Independent quoted Royal College of Surgeons president Peter Morris as saying that it supported much of the consultants' views and said it was facing 'serious challenges' as a result of the cut in junior doctors' working hours

[yankeedame]

Ain't "Hillary Care" great? But, OTOH, they do have universal heath care.

[monkeywrench]

They'll be importing them.

[Capriole]

WTF? I'm not a physician, just a former medical student, but even I can do a fine job of sewing somebody up. In the lab I worked in we sewed each other up all the time. It's just not that hard, especially if you have a new needle and fine suturing material. How can someone who has gotten all the way through med school and into a surgical residency NOT know how to stitch a patient?

[LibWhacker]

Old saying: If you can't tie a knot, tie a lot.

'Course, I don't know if we want our surgeons taking that to heart.

[jackbill]

Boy, I can't wait for "single payer", Hillary Care health care.

[Agnes Heep]

LONDON - British surgeons are arriving in operating theatres unable to stitch up wounds or tie knots because of drastic cuts in the length of training, experts have warned.

Maybe it's just me, but if I were a junior surgeon I'd make damned sure I knew how to stitch up wounds or tie knots before attempting it in prime time, even if it meant I had to do the learning on my own.

[lainde]

I knew this would happen...It'll show it's effects here soon enough. Residents who only work 8 hour shifts have no idea how to follow a disease process or critical patient when they just get to "go home".

[Prodigal Son]

My wife practiced her knots and sutures at home. A young doctor wanting to become a surgeon should be proactive in this sense, not wait for theatre time before he practices his knots. My wife would sit watching a movie and tie the knots till it was on a habitual level- muscle memory.