Work. A constant routine a person has to do, day until night or the other way around. People work for the purpose of needing to sustain their lives and not struggle financially. People also work because they are passionate about it.
Work also serve as a learning ground for every people because of its challenging activities and tasks that could help construct a person’s character.
There are many kinds of work such as being a freelancer, which does not really have a fixed schedule. Next is a part-time employee, an employee with a fixed work schedule but for only a few hours, and lastly, being a full-time worker, a kind of employee who works for more than about 8 hours every day.
It is a known fact that professional jobs are one of the busiest and most bustling jobs since it deals with a lot of workers, tasks, and responsibilities. In the professional field of work, employees must follow a system to have an efficient workflow and to maximize their time.
Regarding the professional area, specifically in the medical field, it is a known fact that medical establishments are one of the busiest workplaces due to the number of patients that come inside.
Even if the average number of patients who visit the hospital in a specific time frame is not that fixed to a certain number due to the unpredictability of events in life, medical establishments are still busy and could work for more than 24 hours.
What more if there is an accident on the road? Or a fire has started in a building? Well then, it is of basic knowledge that medical establishments will be extremely busy. With multiple medical professionals assisting patients from left to right. Sometimes, there would not be enough for everyone so the others will have to wait. As for the ones who must provide further care for patients who experienced extreme impact to them and are in immediate need of surgery, how often or how long will they have to work?
Work Hours of a Surgeon
Australia is known for its excellent performance in the medical because this continent houses one of the world’s competent healthcare professionals. The competition in the medical field here in this continent is extremely tough but at least it births excellent medical workers.
Medical professionals who specialize in the field of surgery or surgeons are one of the most in-demand and prominent medical workers in Australia. According to research, the average Australian surgeon’s work hours is about 53 hours each week, which is actually two hours more than what was recorded back in 2011 by The Royal College of Surgeons. Added to this, Australian surgeons work more than the average work hours of other medical professionals who work for 42.8 hours every week.
According to statistics, if it were to compare between the different age groups of every surgeon, those who have been practicing in the surgical field for more than a decade, which could be roughly about 50 to 59 years of age, work longer or has the greatest number of hours in working. This information certainly concludes that as surgeons age or continuously practice in the surgical field for longer periods of time, they tend to stay in the medical establishment to work for long hours of time.
Do They Get Any Day-Off?
In working as an employee, it is only natural that they get a day off, too, since a person must rest after all. However, a day off varies from different professions and this article will only cover medical professionals and their system of work.
Every employee receives some benefits from their employer or their workplaces such as health insurance and life insurance. The other thing is a paid day off or paid time off. Paid time offs is when an employee is called in sick, on a vacation, or other probably attending a personal matter which caused them to not attend work.
But the real question here is, do medical workers get time offs? Can they really get time offs? To further elaborate, medical workers do get time offs, like on holidays, or they could also provide an excuse for their absence at work. But according to some medical workers, they still attend work on the holidays for the reason of wanting to have another set of hands to assist a patient just in case it gets busy in the medical establishment that they working at.
Hospitals are relentlessly busy. One can never predict what could happen in a day but medical establishments are prepared for that which is why some medical workers rarely get any time off whether it is by choice or compulsory due to the heavy workload every medical establishment goes through even in just a day.
Research has shown that the average time off or day off a medical worker has is about 35 to 40 days only each year which is such a low number although it is understandable due to so many people needing their medical services on a daily basis.
There are also some instances wherein a medical worker does not have any day off for the reasons that they could be practicing individually or have their own clinic to manage which is why they do not have the benefits of those medical workers who work as an employee for a medical establishment like the previously mentioned.
The Bottomline
A surgeon is one of the busiest professionals there is. There are times when a hospital garners a horde of patients even in just a day or sometimes it could be consecutive especially during this time due to COVID-19. Due to these unfortunate events, they experience little to no rest and sleep at all. They get overworked and their workload has still not decreased.