> .. it cut into the 100-hour-plus weeks that were often the norm for surgical trainees.
Serious question: how are these surgeons still awake after one month without resorting to stimulants and other medications?
That would be 20h a day, with weekends, or 14h+ a day, every day with no break.
If you drive more than about 9h in one go, at least around here, you're considered a threat for others on the street and unfit to drive.
But US surgeons are considered high quality after working 14h?
Serious question: how are these surgeons still awake after one month without resorting to stimulants and other medications? That would be 20h a day, with weekends, or 14h+ a day, every day with no break.
If you drive more than about 9h in one go, at least around here, you're considered a threat for others on the street and unfit to drive. But US surgeons are considered high quality after working 14h?