A mechanic sits down next to a doctor at the bar. They get to talking. Before long, the mechanic says, "hey, you and I aren't so different. We both open things up and fix 'em. How come you get so much more credit than I do?"
The doctor says, "You get to turn the cars off before working on them."
[0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/03/architect-vines/
I've heard this claim before, but this seems like a communication problem more than anything else. Keeping insane work schedules as a means to address it seems really suspect to me.
In a secondary analysis that was adjusted for the number of patients per resident physician as a potential confounder, intervention schedules were no longer associated with an increase in errors.
The culture of medical education in the west places doctors in a bubble where 48 hours exhaustion marathons are glorified and considered a rite of passage. Other fields have found ways to do handovers with minimal to no impact on the continuity of operations.