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This would be interesting to see.

I know it's only anecdotal but my brother in law is a doctor at a large hospital (employed physician) and he sees patients 9-5 but he's at the hospital from 7am-8pm doing prep, research and patient notes. That also doesn't count the nights/weekends when he's on call for the ER (usually takes calls from home but occasionally has to go in too). He basically only sees his kids on the weekend.

I worked similar hours for a few years while coding and I expect he will (but hope he doesn't) burn out eventually. It's obviously not sustainable.




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