Reply #75: How many hours do you think they work?

[knitter4democracy]

My husband is the only one in his practice that covers the hospital in the town we live in. If he has a patient in there (or three or four, as is usual), he's on call. That means that he has to round at both hospitals in the morning, work all day in the office, round again at night (usually an admission or something big he has to take a look at), and then have his pager and phone going off all night long. That's day in, day out. I tell ya, there are times I'd love to take a sledgehammer to that pager.

Oh, and he doesn't make $200K a year and probably never will in this market. I'm just sayin' . . .