Doctors threatened with ‘uncomfortable chairs’ after hospital tells them to stop napping on night shifts
The behaviour was unprofessional and prohibited, a hospital manager wrote in an internal email
Junior doctors at a hospital in Sydney have been threatened with an increased workload and “less comfortable chairs” for napping on overnight shifts, in a directive that has been met with disbelief by many across the medical profession.
In an email, a manager at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital warned them they were “not being paid to sleep while on shift”, saying that making a “cosy bed” in the lounge area was unprofessional and not permitted.
