The program was started by a guy hopped up on cocaine the whole time, that's why the hours alone suck: "William Stewart Halsted developed a novel residency tra

The program was started by a guy hopped up on cocaine the whole time, that's why the hours alone suck: "William Stewart Halsted developed a novel residency training program at Johns Hopkins Hospital that, with some modifications, became the model for surgical and medical residency training in North America. While performing anesthesia research early in his career, Halsted became addicted to cocaine and morphine" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7828946/#:~:text=William%20Stewart%20Halsted%20developed%20a,addicted%20to%20cocaine%20and%20morphine https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7828946/#:~:tex....