I still cannot understand why a profession like medical doctor does not have better working conditions + a guild or union to enforce that, like actuaries have. Doctor is a profession that few can do, few want to do, it's very hard, many barriers to entry etc. so all that would seem like it should result in doctors getting great pay and benefits like good working hours, even moreso because no one wants a surgeon who is severely sleep deprived and possibly suicidally depressed!

I just don't get it. Do doctors collectively do something wrong here that allows hospital admins to mistreat them so much, including the mistreatment of interns/residents during med school? And this is international too, I have heard these awful working conditions from doctors in Australia, USA, and the Netherlands. In the Netherlands example the resident intern I spoke to was even in a Dutch union but apparently the union was pretty worthless because he got paid extremely little and had the same 20-30 hour shifts that doctors in the USA have.