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Originally Posted by Noah930
Yeesh. Those days are/were terrible. I remember one rotation I did. We left at 9-10 pm at night. I would then wake up at 2 am for the next day. For 4 weeks straight. And we were just the students. The 2 interns had it worse. They'd stay in-house every other night. Meaning the night they weren't on-call, they'd leave at 10 pm and be back about 4 hours later.
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It still amazes me that we accept this as normal in the medical field. A truck driver legally has to stop driving after 14 hours at work, but we make doctors work weeks on end getting 3-4hrs sleep or less and expect them to operate in high stress environments with people’s lives at stake all the time. Just crazy that there aren’t more rules about how long that shift is.