The very best surgeon I know saved my mother’s life. I also know from talking to nurses that for years, he has started surgeries at 2am and ended at 10pm every Monday and Thursday. That’s 20 hour days, spent either on his feet in the operating room, in an on-site office reviewing test results, doing rounds of his hospitalized patients, or seeing families in the waiting to explain how a surgery has gone. And he still pulls at least a weekday and half in his own office, each week. It’s a brutal, high-stress job I do not envy, and I will certainly not begrudge him a mid-day nap.
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