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Ever since I learned that a lot of the standards for medical schedules, long work hours etc were set by a cocaine addict who believed it was natural to pull long hours (https://historydaily.org/cocaine-and-modern-medicine-a-twist...) it's really stuck with me.

So many bad practices basically persist due to inertia and we all suffer for it.

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Medical errors kill around a quarter-million people a year. Third-leading cause of death.

Anderson JG, Abrahamson K. Your Health Care May Kill You: Medical Errors. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017;234:13-17. PMID: 28186008.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28186008/

Medical residents are capped at 80 hours per-week making around $50k/year, and this is sold as some sort of breakthrough over the previous system where they were working well-in-excess of those 80/week for years during their residency.

What is normalized in the healthcare system is beyond insane.

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