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207 Hours Overtime: Japanese Man in Kobe Worked to Death (unseen-japan.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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A medical resident worked 207 hours of overtime in a month. His case highlights Japan's continuing problem with karoshi - death by overwork.

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[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The key here is medical resident. They're abused in every country and forced sleep on call in the hospital and pay is shit compared to attendings.

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This shit right here. We need to completely overhaul the medical residency system. Corporations are literally killing these workers for profit and the hazing culture of medicine continues to ignore that fact.

[–] philpo@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, let's not forget that the residency system was designed by someone who took massive amounts of cocaine....and back then the concentration of work was not nearly as bad....