Then they made it so you can't work more than 24 hours straight in residency

What a luxury

And then cases turned out worse because you didn't have the same surgeon for consecutive operations

So it actually worsened the health care

Yes, of course, the best way of having the same surgen for several operations is perpetual work

No, consecutive operations as in the same surgeon for individual patients

Yes

"perpetual"

I mean, once they finish residency, it drops to 60 hours roughly

Unless you do like dermatology or something, then you work like 50 hour weeks

Sometimes less, like 40

That sounds more reasonable

Anesthesia work these 12 hour shift things

It's actually not bad because it's consistent

Surgeons have these wonky days where it will be 14 hour day followed by a 6 hour day

Cause a case can take like 12 hours sometimes or even longer

Like if a dude comes in and doesn't have a face cause of an explosion or falling off a motorcycle without a helmet

You can't just let him die

Well I hope those aren't very common

Depends on the area

Those cases go to the best surgeons

So the better your hospital is, the more likely you take those

Cause the small clinic or private hospital down the road can't do those reliably

They might die

So the cases all go to the same guys everytime

And those are highly specialized cases. Complete facial reconstruction is a new thing (like 10 years old), so only a handful of people know how to do it

But if you work vascular surgery, you get a lot more cases like those for heart disease reasons.

So what happens is the hardest cases go to the best hospitals. Hardest cases have the highest mortality

So the best vascular surgeons actually will have high mortality rates unfortunately. Many patients die...

Sounds really stressful

Yeah, my dad does facial reconstruction, and I work with the vascular department of the hospital here

The vascular surgeon are pretty insane

I'll admit that

I could never do that. They have too many people die

Have you already finished studies?

No

I actually study econ

But I was formerly pre-med

So I've been working in vascular research since highschool

Almost 4 years now doing that

Whew