Dude, there’s something wrong either with your schools, or with your perception of reality.
In any case, life is not a picnic, there’s nothing unusual in constantly putting extra effort to achieve something worthwhile.
Talk to some doctors. Ask what their workload is like.
It turns out that software engineers are worked way, way harder.
Edit: Obviously things change in the actual job.
Source: Worked with multiple surgeons all over the country.
Having worked as a software engineer/developer, I can at that sometimes the work can be challenging but overall the job itself has been pretty easy and low-stress in comparison.
During the first half of my career, I put in a lot of extra hours but then I realized it wasn't going to help me get a raise or get promoted so I stopped doing that and stuck mostly to the 40 hour work week which I was being paid for.
But the nature of the medicine is incomparably harder and more complex than the nature of CS discipline (which is an artificial human-made construct, however sophisticated).
It only means that if someone puts less time/effort in studying more complicated thing, this someone is much worse in it than in less complicated matter.
Being born in eastern europe myself I know of plenty of shitty schools, both medical and engineering.