My 70 year old FIL regularly works 60-70+ hour weeks as a doctor. Nothing to do with Covid, just because that's how the hospital shifts are set up. They regular

My 70 year old FIL regularly works 60-70+ hour weeks as a doctor. Nothing to do with Covid, just because that's how the hospital shifts are set up. They regularly put him on 15+ hour shifts. They started thinking he had dementia and it was just chronic sleep deprivation. It might have something to do with less transitions being safer: https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2017/02/14/transitions https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2017/02/14/transitio... or hospital control of the labor market: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/doctors-long-hours-schedules/516639/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/doctors... Personally, I don't see how it's good for anybody, but supposedly it doesn't affect patient safety: https://consumer.healthday.com/general-health-information-16/doctor-news-206/do-long-doctor-shifts-hurt-patients-study-says-no-743499.html https://consumer.healthday.com/general-health-information-16...