This is absolutely true. Until I helped some family members with multiple surgeries, I didn’t realize surgeons often performed multiple surgeries back-to-back e

This is absolutely true. Until I helped some family members with multiple surgeries, I didn’t realize surgeons often performed multiple surgeries back-to-back every day (except a couple office days taken to actually talk to patients rather than cut on them). Each one of those surgeries is likely a life-altering event for those patients, but for the surgeon, it’s not only just another day but just another hour’s work. It’s physically demanding work and emotionally demanding. Finally, you get calls from patients day and night forwarded to you on a constant basis. The medical field is incredibly demanding in ways that I will simply not experience as an engineer.