They have this nifty thing called residency where you work 80 hours/week for 3-7 years

Work ethic is to be able to work a normal amount of time

2 weeks vacation

Then you finish it and work 60 hour weeks

Doctors also have to work for huge amounts of time here

And residents make ~80000/year

Gotta pay dem burgers

b o r g a r hour

Yee, but US residency is much more intense

Euro countries have regulations on working hours and conditions for residency

Residents used to work 90+ hours

But that got knocked down recently to 80 like ten years back

If you did plastic surgery residency, they had this shift of training for a few months called Trauma where you could work 36 hours straight and 120 hours in a week

They decided that was bad cause "muh doctor is tired."

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.