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The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe

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128 points mykowebhn | 2 comments | 29 Jul 25 15:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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huijzer ◴[29 Jul 25 16:03 UTC] No.44725035[source]▶
Yes can confirm this is real. I know both German and Dutch nurses who say that the workload is incredibly high. One older nurse also said the pressure today is much higher than years ago.
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thmsths ◴[29 Jul 25 16:08 UTC] No.44725107[source]▶
I am not surprised. Healthcare costs have been rising faster than inflation for several years. It's a difficult sell to increase budgets, so we have to resort to these "invisible" cost cutting measures to try and stay afloat.
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ajmurmann ◴[29 Jul 25 16:21 UTC] No.44725270[source]▶
This will continue to happen as long as automation in health care is slower than in other sectors. It's due to Baumol's Cost Disease: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

The same is true for other sectors that struggle with automation like education.

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1. 28304283409234 ◴[30 Jul 25 08:39 UTC] No.44732043[source]▶
Which part of a nurses shifts would you automate?
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2. ajmurmann ◴[01 Aug 25 04:40 UTC] No.44753069[source]▶
I don't know, I'm merely stating what comes down to an economic law. I'm not an expert on healthcare.

However, as it happens I just spent the last weekend accompanying my wife as she was in a hospital. There was actually quite a bit that happened, especially once or l out of the ER and admitted, that I would have felt totally fine if a robot had done it. Half of what the nurses did were things like bringing puke bags, picking up a full puke bags, bringing water, paging the doctor again who wouldn't show up for another 4 hours, explaining how to order food.