text: Should also add - that those hours are shared or exceeded by many so called high level professions - it just comes with the territory.    Eg:   Corporate law, or Finance and investment banking (in which I worked for 3 decades),      Of course people will joke that anybody could do this whereas medicine requires a highly specialized degree.     But with insight into both, I have to say that Doctors typically are terrible at multi=tasking, and when they talk about stress, it's a whole different concept of stress (more that they're simply untrained in dealing with stress) - very much self inflicted vs eg: deal stress with impossible counter parties or the stress of trying to trade a position in an unpredictable global market with your P&L directly tied to your compensation and future.     In fact, in my family we often joke as we look at each other and say "I wish I had gone into your field".