Why would you do this? Some of the most basic labour jobs have better employment terms than this.
> You might ask, why can’t you work less? It’s not as easy as that. If I decide to work less, who is going to cover the hospital?
Yes, I did ask. But covering the hospital isn't your problem, that's a hospital management problem.
> If the hospital aren’t employing other doctors, we can’t allow patients to go uncovered.
It's the hospital that's allowing patients to go uncovered if they don't employ enough doctors for a reasonable workload.
The author goes on to detail just how unreasonable the workload is.
> As a surgeon I spent a year in a hospital where I smiled on the way to work and I am so grateful for my job. I looked forward to long days because I knew what I was doing was significant.
So there are cases where it can be enjoyable, yet ...
> Another year in another hospital, I dreaded going to work. I hated being on call....Same surgeon, different jobs.
I don't see why you'd choose to work at the dreadful job. Isn't surgery a skilled labour job that is in high demand? How can they not demand more control over their working environment?
I'm guessing, but maybe it's possible that they're conditioned to accept increasingly stressful environments from the first day of med school. So that by the time they're surgeons, they're so conditioned that the idea of refusing the unreasonably stressful load is not even fathomable. Maybe there's even a certain amount of egotistical satisfaction that comes from being able to hack it.