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Richards also claimed that Hunt had ignored a series of studies of mortality rates among patients admitted to hospital when he began claiming in July 2015 that as many as 11,000 patients a year admitted on a Saturday or Sunday die unnecessarily because too few doctors are on duty – the "weekend effect".
Keogh is the first senior doctor to articulate in public the warnings that many leaders of the profession have recently given the BMA privately about the danger of patients dying because too few doctors were on duty.
However, he says, better quantifying the risk is important because too few doctors understand the importance of regular skin exams.
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The findings come soon after Grantham and District hospital in Lincolnshire closed its A&E unit overnight because it had too few doctors.
Meanwhile Prof Jane Dacre, the president of the Royal College of Physicians, has warned that the NHS "is in deep trouble" because it has too few doctors, is underfunded and facing the most intense pressure on services.
All too often, our shifts extend by two or three hours because there are simply too few doctors to look after all the patients safely.
But he said that the new policy would likely depend on hiring and training more low-level health care workers because there are far too few doctors or nurses in low-income countries to handle the task.
For years the United States has been training too few doctors to meet its own needs, in part because of industry-set limits on the number of medical school slots available.
Too few doctors generally, especially in A&E.
While too many surgeons may be available, too few doctors are on hand to deal with trauma, he said.
Sadly, however, it seems that too few doctors understand or respect this Hippocratic dictum.
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