Since the new year started, we have a new rule in the op rooms. Thus far, we were supposed to do "time out", which is for surgeons to call the patient's name, disease, position, procedure, allergies, and so on, and then anesthesiologists and nurses all call "I agree", before starting surgery. That means we could start the procedure and have it done halfway even if staff doctors don't make it to the starting time. But from this year, the huddle system has begun, that is, staff doctors must come before the induction to confirm the patients' name. This takes a while indeed. Actually, this is ridiculous. Everyone in the OR knows who the patient is because they are their doctors and nurses. Still and all, we have to have staff doctors check that again?
The same thing can be said to Japan. I think it is nonsense to put all responsibilities on doctors. If nurses or other professions have their own licenses, they should use them! When something happens, it always goes like "Ok, this has to be done by doctors from now". This sucks! In my previous hospitals, putting the name tag on a patient was a doctor's job because a nurse has put a wrong tag by mistake.
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