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Some doctors don't have a choice. My brother was on call this weekend and got called in Friday night at 10 P.M. and Saturday night at 2 A.M., then had to be back to work at 7 A.M. Sunday. Obviously sleep deprived, but there's nothing he specifically could do. This needs to change at an institutional level.
Coming from the nuclear industry, this sounds crazy, even compared to our outage culture. NRC says that you can work up to 16 hours, then you MUST go home for 8. It takes some paperwork to get a one-time exception.
My grandfather owned a tiny hospital in a small town. He was a surgeon. He went to france during the great war with the British Army. There were only two surgery rooms at the town. His room was one of them. His hospital was half his big house. His home was the other half. He lived busy until age ninety. The war never finished for him.