“A worker can still earn more in 24 hours than a trained doctor in a month’s work.” | health

A month after it was published of the decree-law Which allowed hospitals to pay higher values For physicians who agree to work overtime in emergency departments, five hundred trainee physicians (who undergo training in the specialty) declared themselves unavailable to work more than 150 additional hours per year. According to the unions, more than 400 trainees in the specialty of internal medicine have already refused to go beyond this limit, joining the 110 trainees in obstetrics and gynecology who have expressed the same intention in message Send to the Minister of Health advance this month. The internists, who are the “mainstay of emergency services”, are tired and demand more money for overtime”Not enough,” says Carlos Mendonça, President of the National Board of Internal Medicine, an advisory body of Ordem dos Médicos. He asserts that the new generation wants to have more time for other activities, “they want to manage life with balance.” This Monday, there is a meeting of internal medicine interns with President Miguel Guimarães to discuss solutions to the emergency services “crisis.”