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Golfing today? What are you some sort of communist?

nobody works on Friday afternoons - not even commies

I don’t totally understand the history of that practice and I remain curious if there’s any upside to it.

like, I would assume sleep deprived doctors are worse for patients. But I don’t really understand if there’s any payoff to training while in that state.

shut the hell up and pay yer dues
or get a different job

I don’t totally understand the history of that practice and I remain curious if there’s any upside to it.

like, I would assume sleep deprived doctors are worse for patients. But I don’t really understand if there’s any payoff to training while in that state.

I'd need to ask some people who would know better than I.  Without that benefit, I'm guessing a couple of the rationales are:

• Residents have to have X amount of hours before they can be unleashed to do their own thing or proceed to the next step in their chosen field.  Because there's a provider shortage, it behooves the industry to get these folks out into the independent practicing world asap.  
• Also, a lot of hospitals couldn't function without residents, and there's only a limited number of them but the workload is what it is, so....you work until the work's done.  
• Depending on their chosen specialty and setting--i.e., clinic, hospital, other--they stand to be in for careers of ungodly long and awful hours.  Might as well break them in while they're still green, because for a lot of them, it ain't ever gonna get much better.  

Just my guesses.  

Yo have to wonder… would there really be that much of a shortage if being a doctor wasn’t so much of a bitch to start with?  

Yo have to wonder… would there really be that much of a shortage if being a doctor wasn’t so much of a bitch to start with? 

I'd posit that becoming a doctor and being a doctor is about as hard as it ever was, in many respects.  Some laws do change, obviously.  And standard procedures can change with new medical advancements, so maybe some things could be more time consuming, but I assume that's offset by technological advances which make MD workflows much faster.  

What is suffering is the payoff.  Doctors can't make the same kind of money they once did.  I know multiple doctors who claim they discouraged their kids from entering the profession, because they saw the writing on the wall for many years, and now are living it, that the profession no longer compensates you like you'd want for what it demands of you.  This largely has to do with insurance reimbursements, but also other things.  

Another part of the shortage, imo, is a cultural problem.  I think there's a lesser percentage of kids today who are willing to put in the work that it takes to become a doctor. 

So we're left with incentivizing foreign doctors to come here and importing the ones we can lure.