Re:How Being a Doctor Became the Most Miserable Profession
by hga on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @07:03PM
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A nit, in the military this is not limited to "special forces", and I'm just talking about the stresses of peacetime. Look at e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_system which doesn't list the 4 hours on, 4 hours off system the US Navy used, at least in the '50s when my father was First Lieutenant on a North Atlantic radar picket ship. He still remembers it being very hard.
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Re:How Being a Doctor Became the Most Miserable Profession
by SapphireSun on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @07:18PM
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This is interesting. Thanks for the link!
Nonetheless, I don't think these guys are getting 4 on 4 off... I think they just work basically straight through for 12-16 (or more) hours and get maybe a day a week off.
I can completely sympathize though that 4 on 4 off would be incredibly hard in and of itself. I'm not sure I could do it for weeks let alone months on end.