Just about the workload, I think that working hard in medicine is quite different to working hard in most other situations. Certainly doing long shifts in a maj

Just about the workload, I think that working hard in medicine is quite different to working hard in most other situations. Certainly doing long shifts in a major hospital often invovles: 1. An entirely unpredictable work load, with no mechanism to compensate for excessive demand. 2. Dealing with problems for which you have not been properly trained. 3. Dealing with other doctors that are also extremely busy and stressed, and therefore limited in how much they can help you. 4. Having to work while physically and emotionally exhausted or actually genuinely sick, with no recourse to get help. 5. Having to do all this while studying or taking exams. 6. Not being paid fully for the hours you work. 7. Sometimes being sworn at, racially vilified, spat at, threatened or attacked. Depending on which job you do, this could come from your colleagues, nursing staff, admin or the patients. I think that certain other professions such as the police or military personnel encounter similar situations, but I would hazard that they are better trained, better supported and rostered better than doctors ever are. So although many other people might work 90+ weeks, I doubt it is under these conditions. Because that would be a dumb thing to do right? And only doctors with their misguided sense of duty and high pain tolerance are willing to front up again and again. Nurses can suffer the same problems, but in general they are much better at protecting themselves.