At about 6 o'clock on February 13, Liu Wenxiong, a doctor at the Sanfutan Town Health Center in Xiantao City, Hubei Province, died suddenly at home.
According to reports, from January 12 to February 12, Dr. Liu received a total of 3,181 patients. At the end of January, there were already chest pain, palpitations and other physical discomfort symptoms, but because of the heavy epidemic prevention task, there were still patients who called the night before their deaths.
On February 28, Zhong Jinxing, vice president of the Lingfeng Town Health Center in Babu District, Hezhou City, Guangxi Province, died suddenly at the age of 32 due to fighting in the frontline of the fight against the epidemic for 33 consecutive days and overwork.
After the outbreak of the epidemic, President Zhong took the initiative to undertake work with high risk factors, including fever diagnosis and disinfection and disinfection of suspected cases' residences, etc., and gave up his rotation from the end of January and has been on the front line of the fight against the epidemic.
In the past few days, we have seen a lot of good news about the epidemic, but we have had to say goodbye to these medical workers who have fallen on the front line.
It takes a long time to train a good doctor, and the current situation of sudden death of doctors due to overwork is very painful, and people can't help but think, what causes the frequent sudden death of doctors overwork?
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Huge workload
In the Spring Festival of 2020, no one expected that the original normal life would be disrupted by a new crown pneumonia, which was a great challenge for the group of doctors. In this epidemic prevention war, doctors are one of the busiest groups of people, and as more and more infected people are cured, behind this is also the huge workload of countless doctors who are racing against death.
According to a survey, more than 90% of the 7762 practicing doctors participated in the survey of practicing practice, 20% of the surveyed doctors said that they worked more than eight hours a day, 20% of the doctors said that they worked 10-12 hours a day, and 13.5% of the doctors surveyed worked more than 12 hours a day. Eighty percent of the doctors surveyed said that there were no weekends off, and 48.05 percent of the doctors surveyed said that they were very tired. The doctor's workload is large and the intensity of work is large, so that the health of many doctors has lit up a red light.
· Support staff is missing
There is a serious shortage of medical auxiliary personnel in China, so that many doctors not only have to complete their own workload, but also take time to do what other auxiliary personnel should do, and the working hours are even busier. Therefore, when recruiting doctors, hospitals should consider the problem of personnel allocation, and also increase the allocation of auxiliary personnel to help doctors reduce stress.
· Medical resources are unevenly distributed
The imbalance of medical resources is also an important cause of overwork in doctors. In the deformed medical service system of the inverted triangle, the more hospitals in first-tier large cities, the more concentrated medical resources are, and the more concentrated the number of patients, resulting in more busy doctors, especially in the top three hospitals in large cities, doctors feel great pressure. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the medical service system and allow patients to be reasonably triaged.
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Reports of sudden death by doctors because they were too tired appeared frequently, which also woke up a wake-up call for everyone to pay attention to their bodies and find the signal before sudden death in time. Many sudden deaths are caused by myocardial infarction, and the body also sends some signals before sudden death.
The first is chest tightness, which feels like a large stone pressing against one's chest, an area the size of a palm, and is breathless, while this pain is spread to the left shoulder, upper limb and jaw area;
Secondly, unexplained fatigue, if the state of fatigue still cannot be relieved after rest, accompanied by chest tightness and edema, should be vigilant as a precursor to sudden death.
Finally, limb numbness, syncope, fainting is an important precursor to sudden death, or unilateral blurred vision, unilateral limb numbness, fatigue, walking instability and other symptoms should be vigilant is a signal of sudden death.
Doctors who die suddenly from work fatigue are very touching, but we should not call on and learn from this spirit of sacrificing our own health.
This call to give one's life for work is not human, but it is also a nuance to the value of life. There is nothing wrong with advocating dedication, and the efforts made by doctors to save the lives of patients are worthy of recognition, but doctors are also flesh and blood, a person's ability to contribute is limited, and the life of every doctor should also be respected.
If a doctor dies suddenly because of long-term overload, the superior department also calls on other doctors to learn like doctors who have died of overwork, which is actually disrespect for the doctor's personal value. Let the doctor give up rest or even health to work, and in the end the doctor will accumulate into a disease, whether it is at the level of real labor law or the fair level of personal value, it is worth thinking about.
Not "learning" from overworked doctors is a manifestation of a value consciousness awakening, and it is also a right that should be respected and protected.
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Resources:
1.Li Hongwei. Before sudden death, the body has already given you a signal[J].Health Care Guide: Health of middle-aged and elderly people, 2015:65.
2. "It is also a right not to learn from overwork doctors". Securities Times.2018-02-08
3. Cao Yuan. Doctors overwork and death become the pain of the industry[J].President of Chinese Hospital, 2015(02):51+53.
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