[highhedgehog]

It seems absolutely inhumane to me.

Doctors and medical staff treat human lives and I don't think they are comparable to an office job. They also get paid a lot for that (at least in the US)

I don't know how someone can focus with that time schedule and I cannot see how I could handle that. I have so many other stuff in my life that I could not see myself committing to that, unless maybe in the case of having my own business or actually thinking that doing that (still, only for a limited amount of time) will open up great possibilities (maybe I strongly believe in the start up I work for). Especially not for 40k/year.

[ghi5goio3qno4i3]

Can't really comment on whether it's humane, that's a debate left to people smarter then me.

Like I said, there's pretty significant downtime, it's not all go all the time. Weekend and evening work is at a fairly relaxed pace as well and is free of distractions.

It helps if you do not have hobbies, friends, dependents, a partner, and a family that is quite fine with not seeing you often, with no realistic possibility of any of that changing in the future. It would be much more difficult if any of those factors were different.