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

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128 points mykowebhn | 1 comments | 29 Jul 25 15:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.227s | 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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retrac ◴[29 Jul 25 16:13 UTC] No.44725163[source]▶
> rising faster than inflation for several years

Over here in Canada healthcare spending has been rising faster than general inflation more or less continuously since the 1960s. Seems to be generally true of many wealthy countries. More tech and therapies. And an ageing population. And probably other factors.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Health_care_cost_r...

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betaby ◴[29 Jul 25 16:40 UTC] No.44725527[source]▶
Salaries probably pay factor as well? Check the sunshine list, plenty of radiologists making 600k/year. That's literally 10x of the median salary.
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1. zeagle ◴[30 Jul 25 12:37 UTC] No.44733423[source]▶
This cherrypicks a high billing specialty, doesn't appreciate an overhead of 25-40% for most physicians, and also overestimates the proportion of physician salaries in healthcare budgets (~15%). You could literally pay physicians half and not save that much.

Also is that too high? I know a guy in his early 40s still finishing his 2nd radiology fellowship (4 years undergrad, 4 years med school, 5 years radiology, 1-2 years each fellowship = cost of his 20s/30s) to get a job...

I find HN comments on healthcare compensation when it comes up funny because on the other hand compensation expectations in the tech gold mine here are justified. E.g. I take home less in CDN dollars than an L3 SE at google without benefits. I'm happy with what I do/get but there is a mismatch in rationalizing high compensation, markedly more years of university and training, and from my point providing a societal benefit.