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puddlejumpers t1_j24ygd2 wrote

I'm working 72 hrs this week, I literally wake and can't tell for a few seconds if I'm at home or dozed off at work.

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actias_selene t1_j25wpvu wrote

Same, I kind of hate the end of the week and December because the work is always of the roof. Still happy some enjoy it though.

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Kill_Frosty t1_j262air wrote

That’s pretty fucked up. Can’t imagine working those hours nevermind during the holidays.

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Obnoxiousdonkey t1_j26bebn wrote

lots of people dont have family, dont celebrate christmas, or choose to work it because they get paid a lot. My uncle volunteers to work christmas and thanksgiving because his company pays double time up to 4 hours, and triple time anything over that. If i made anything close to that, you best believe im loading it up that week.

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Kill_Frosty t1_j26c22r wrote

Understandable. If you have a family though I can’t imagine doing that. You only get so many together

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TheERASAccount t1_j26e3pj wrote

Resident physician with a family, work “80 hours” almost every week…worked both Christmas and thanksgiving. Thankfully my kids are little so we told them Santa came early this year and did it on my post-call day.

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puddlejumpers t1_j26w3bs wrote

Damn, as a physician, you're probably salary? Me, I'm all about that OT PLUS holiday pay.

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chief_mdp53 t1_j27qawu wrote

Resident physician means still in training after med school. They get paid $45-60k/year for on avg 60-80hr work weeks for 3-5 years depending on specialty. So yeah perk it’s a salary. Break it down and it’s like $12-15/hr for someone who likely has a $250k+ student loan debt plus other expenses who is grossly underpaid and overworked and has to deal with life or death decisions all the time and be on top of their game while working a maximum 28hr shift per ACGME guidelines so they don’t burn out too quickly. 80hr limitations occurred because it was common for resident physicians to work 120hrs or more. Deadly mistakes were made in the past so they clamped down on it a bit, but 80-90hrs a week is very common even to this day. Hence they are called “residents” of the hospital and practically lived there.

Once you graduate, salary jumps dramatically but residents are exploited for cheap labor within our healthcare system and just wanted to point this out. Media and Reddit makes physicians out to look like fat cats who are lazy greedy money grubbing assholes who doing nothing but get paid big bucks by big pharma, but the reality is they sacrifice so much of their early years to the field of medicine that many the slightly higher salary doesn’t come close to justify the years of sacrifice they endured which is why physicians commit suicide at a higher rate vs general population (same with dentists).

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Panzis t1_j2903jl wrote

The holidays? You mean last weekend and this weekend?

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Kill_Frosty t1_j290acy wrote

I haven’t worked for 2 weeks lol. Most people I know take at least the week

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Panzis t1_j2baz85 wrote

Brother you're making me pine for the days of yore. Maybe I'll do that next year.

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Vex1111 t1_j298up4 wrote

not everyone celebrates christmas so he might be getting crazy high overtime /extra pay to cover for colleagues that are having christmas

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