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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: 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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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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thmsths ◴[29 Jul 25 16:51 UTC] No.44725661[source]▶
That does not explain everything. While you could make a reasonable case that doctors are overpaid in the US, the same budgetary crisis is happening all over Europe where salaries are much lower.
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betaby ◴[29 Jul 25 17:11 UTC] No.44725885[source]▶
The crisis in France is clearly not on the same level that is in Quebec. It's not the only factor, but a serious one. As a continuation of it we have a heavily caped number of doctors what can be 'minted' every year. Same caps exist in the USA states.
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1. genericacct ◴[31 Jul 25 21:50 UTC] No.44750587[source]▶
This also happens in Italy, there's a maximum number of people who can get into med school. However, even though some complain of being overworked, some others complain that increasing that maximum number will lead to unemployment. So apparently medical professionals can either be overworked or unemployed, there is no in between..