There is not a doubt in my mind that this schedule ensures that they learn less and perform their jobs in much worse ways than compared to when they would be ab

There is not a doubt in my mind that this schedule ensures that they learn less and perform their jobs in much worse ways than compared to when they would be able to get more sleep and less stress. There's zounds of experiments that back me up on this. As far people saying it's cheap labor: when residents make mistakes and the hospital gets sued, the labor suddenly isn't so cheap anymore. Again, there is not a doubt in my mind that this practice leads to a lot of damage and death, with the associated financial fallout. That hospital management doesn't try to change this shows how blind they are to the consequences of entrenched practices. I wonder whether the health care market could be disrupted merely by creating hospitals that actually try to get their employees to perform optimally.