Yep. Unfortunately, medical school is only the beginning. Depending on your residency or fellowship program, it is not unusuall to sustain 80+ hours per week.

Yep. Unfortunately, medical school is only the beginning. Depending on your residency or fellowship program, it is not unusuall to sustain 80+ hours per week. And unlike nurses, you don't get to disconnect from work when you aren't in the hospital. There are pages to answer, notes to write, labs to review, and on and on... The mental and emotional load is tremendous and there is no room for error. it's truly a miracle more people don't end up the subject of Morbidity and Mortality presentations from botched lines and pneumos.