Some departments have few staff and if they cannot arrange the work, they will simply ask the interns in their own department to help on duty.

"Aren't you very tired from working the night shift like this every day?" Wu Lixuan said, worried about the health of her childhood friends.

Hospitals and departments must ensure that their doctors do not work themselves to death.

In the National Association, the emergency duty system is much better than some hospitals with 24-hour duty system, and it only works in three shifts.

The three-shift system means one shift is from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., one shift is from 6 p.m. to midnight, and one shift is from midnight to 8 a.m.

"I sometimes see him working all-night shifts?" Wu Lixuan raised the question again, thinking that their doctors' shifts were mysterious and unpredictable. When ordinary people go to the emergency room at night, it seems that sometimes they can't find a doctor or only see one doctor, but my childhood friend Gang said that there are several doctors on night shifts.

"The first half of the night shift may seem to have the shortest duty time, but it is actually the busiest and most tiring." Xie Wanying told her friend about this, helping Dr. Yin explain the work situation to his girlfriend. "During the day, there are outpatient clinics to divert the number of patients. At night, there are no outpatient clinics, so all patients have to go to the emergency room for treatment. Domestic hospital emergency departments are not like foreign emergency departments. They will not refuse to see you if your condition is not urgent or not within the emergency department's treatment scope. Everyone is welcome. In the second half of the night, most people have fallen asleep, and the number of patients will decrease accordingly, which seems to be better. However, the night shift of the emergency department is arranged like this: one doctor on duty in the first half of the night must stay to work until the second half of the night, and other colleagues must stay in the hospital and cannot leave. In the second half of the night, if one doctor is too busy, they must get up to help."

After understanding what her childhood friend said, Wu Lixuan asked her what she wanted to eat for supper tonight and brought her something refreshing so that she could stay up all night.

What Xie Wanying didn't tell her friends was that doctors are not afraid of working night shifts; they are afraid of having to face emergency situations.

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Doctors can sleep if they have nothing to do during the night shift.

In such a situation, like the doctors on duty in the ward, the emergency doctors on night shift will especially hope that they will not have to face emergency rescue.

Unlike the ward, the probability of encountering emergency rescue in the emergency room is too high.

Basically, there are rescue operations every day in the emergency room 365 days a year. It’s just a matter of numbers, or how many patients die in the emergency room.

It's a cruel statement but it's true. The doctors on duty in the emergency room prayed that no one would die, but they didn't dare to hope that they wouldn't have to rescue the patient.

I heard that classmate Xie had encountered a case of death during emergency treatment in the ward. Xin Yanjun thought that there was no need to give classmate Xie a shot of prevention.

After having dinner early, Xie Wanying went to the emergency room to meet up with Teacher Xin. The first day she went to the emergency room with Teacher Xin, it happened to be the busiest first half of the night.

"The shift handover system here is the same as that in the ward. Let's go find our colleagues on the day shift and ask them if they have anything to tell us." Xin Yanjun told the students and took Xie Wanying to the observation room to find the doctor on duty in the internal medicine emergency department during the day.

On the way, Xin Yanjun met her colleague from the Internal Medicine Department who was on night shift tonight. She greeted him, "Hello, Doctor Dong."

Doctor Dong, a cardiologist, is about the same age as Doctor Lin. He has fair skin, is gentle and wears glasses. He is a handsome guy, but he has gained some weight recently. People say that he is in the happiest stage of his life after getting married and having a baby son. It is true that a happy heart makes a fat body.