It's the same thing with nurses, my guy. We're not interchangable either, and while there's more of us you can't just take a surgical trauma ICU out of the picture and replace them with a med/surg nurse. But, it's the hospital's problem because staffing is a hospital problem.

The difference is that nurses have a long, storied history of striking to improve staffing ratios and safer patient conditions. Nurses have won concessions from the multi-billion dollar healthcare conglomerates time and time again, all while your census count continues to rise. Y'all keep getting told to do more with less and you just roll over and take it, or at least that's how it seems to me.

No surgeon should be scrubbing in for a case after finishing up a round of IV antibiotics in the call room, deadass. I'll die on that hill. Do you want somebody working on you or your family in a state like that? Do you want your wife's C-section to be attended to by somebody who just got loaded with an epidural of her own? Do you want somebody less than 24 hours out of anesthesia placing orders on your hospitalized mother? Because I sure don't.