This is normal and expected in american medicine.
Not wanting to work all the time and have no life is perceived as weakness or a moral failing, or a lack of ambition.
“Don’t you want to be the best orthopedic surgeon in America? Well then you better be doing surgeries every moment you can. You gotta keep those numbers up.”
When a surgeon tells you he’s done a procedure a million times, he’s not really exaggerating all that much.
