/—-/ New rules in place: New Guideline Will Allow First-Year Doctors to Work 24-Hour ShiftsJust managed medical device and aerospace manufacturing 7/24 operations with customers from Europe calling me whenever they wanted.Yeah, everyone knows every city ordinance allows you to hammer 2x4’s at 2am... NOTAh, so getting a question about an order for 2x4’s is the equivalent to rushing to an ER to treat a patient on chemo having seizures.
I would say the stress or physical damage of answering a question would be about the same as travel time to a hospital. Of course, unloading those 2x4s and nailing them in place would be quite a bit more physically demanding than looking at charts and ordering nurses to administer the right medicines. Again, I'm not minimizing the stresses a doctor experiences. They are real, and they are large. I'm just saying they don't take the same physical toll as manual labor.
If you've never been on a construction job that ran 24/7 you haven't been on many big jobs.
Nothing as critical or high tech as construction. Wish I had easy like a doctor treating cancer.
Never said a doctor had it easy. I repeatedly said in this thread that doctors have lots of stress. I'm just saying it's not so much physical stress.