Comment by jseliger

The culture of medicine, at least at the physician level, is completely insane; it's so insane that describing its insanity is part of the reason I wrote "Why you should become a nurse or physicians assistant instead of a doctor: the underrated perils of medical school" (https://jakeseliger.com/2012/10/20/why-you-should-become-a-n...). Residents in particular have no power, and even physicians themselves frequently feel they have no choice but to match the death-march pace set by administrators or their most deranged colleagues.