Are these really the people that should be required to work so much? Isn’t their job about handling life and death daily? Wouldn’t we want exactly these people to come fully rested to work every single day and be fully staffed?
I don’t know if there are jobs with similar stakes that are so carelessly staffed and disgustingly paid.
we arnt, but its the NETWORKS, hospitals pushing them to do it. mostly as a way to solve the shortage and to cheap out on hiring more staff. PLUS EQUITY companies are buying doctors as well making it worst for the above.
at least from my insurance HMO, and other insurances, they MDs are pushed to only 20min/patients max, so they have to go through tons of patients in a day burning them out. a doctor which was my pcp havnt seen for more than a decade was visibly stressed from all those patients she had to see.
also lets not forget the MD industry is gatekept by the AMA, they limit how much licenses they will allow every year+ the immense amount of time fOR medical school+ costs, and then post school training.