Reply #42: I thought most hospitals have now abandoned the requirement that puts doctors on call for 24 hours.

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My wife was married briefly to a young resident doctor in Miami who was on that schedule.

Her husband was a zombie during his first year of residency and they had to move to Hartsdale, New York so the couple could live with his widowed mother-in-law -- due to the lack of finances plus the long hours.

The marriage only lasted one year due to that stress, plus the birth of a stillborn daughter which catapulted my wife into a postpartum depression.

Respectfully,

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