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207 Hours Overtime: Japanese Man in Kobe Worked to Death (unseen-japan.com)

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A medical resident worked 207 hours of overtime in a month. His case highlights Japan's continuing problem with karoshi - death by overwork.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

During Covid I worked about 72-80 hours per week. It was awful. We were pulling guard on stockpiles of COVID vaccine since our president of our university was from Iran and he expected crazy right wing terrorism to try to destroy or steal them.

Money was incredible; the overtime was AWFUL. I single handedly think working that 6 months of overtime is now why I medically retired.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Same here. I worked overtime 45 out of 52 weeks in 2020. Only to come out of the pandemic and still have hospitals trying to push too many patients on us, understaff us, supply chain shortages... And they wonder why so many healthcare professionals have burnt out and quit the field.