A surgeon is fined $5,000 after ditching a patient in the operating room for a nap

I bet if one class-year of med students refused to be exploited this way and quit, we’d have less wildly abusive practices.

Frankly I don’t understand how liability insurance hasn’t put a stop to this shit.

We know for a fact that working for longer than about 4 hours has diminishing returns.

We also know that working tired reliably produces mistakes.

In medicine a mistake could mean a big expensive lawsuit.

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