The family of a 26-year-old doctor in Japan who died by suicide last year after working more than 200 hours of overtime in a single month have pleaded for change in a nation long plagued by overwork culture.
The family of a 26-year-old doctor in Japan who died by suicide last year after working more than 200 hours of overtime in a single month have pleaded for change in a nation long plagued by overwork culture.
I'm always rather disheartened when I talk to people about the expectations placed on residents in the American medical system because a common response is to say that it doesn't matter and they deserve it because they're going to be doctors making a good salary soon enough. I'm in my second year of medical school now, so residency's a little ways off, but I can't help but think that people will think of me as spoiled and entitled for pushing back against the 80 hour work weeks that are normal in residency.