i am talking about as an attending.

lets say you make for example 60 per hour in urgent care;
the med assistants get 1.5 times the salary after 8 hrs of work


so why dont doctors?

[quote=grobble;782136]Read the law and understand the law. If they try to fire you for reporting a violation such as the other poster said of 120 hrs/ week .


this is not about firing, but in surgery for example, they will give you a lousy OR operations. they will not take you with them for the new or the most advanced operation. I spoke up one time, just to let them know how much I work, they asked the chief residents and they all testify for me, that I'm the hardest working guy. I still continued to list the hours, but instead of 116,I put it 100, but I notice, I'm getting more rewarding like the other guys if I follow the stream rather than being the black sheep.
it's a team work rather than, disputing and fighting, and if you want to learn in surgery you need to be very obedient, not like in any other branch. because remember, you are learing the skill of doing the surgery, in Medicine, it's easy to go and get your knowledge from any text book, in Surgery, it's with the attending taking your hand and let you do it yourself.

While I agree that residents have to put in very long hours and have a ton to absorb, I wonder at the efficacy of an individual's learning if he or she has been working 100-120 hour weeks. I also, as a potential patient, would never want a resident near me who has been working that schedule for who knows how long. It's not fair to the safety of the patient to treat them when one's mental capacity is affected by overwork and lack of sleep. It's why they created those restrictions on a resident's schedule in the first place.

Just my 2 cents.