http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/this-is-one-way-we-do-not-want-to-be-like-the-japanese/ Health News and Commentary - Weird Health News and Information Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:49:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/this-is-one-way-we-do-not-want-to-be-like-the-japanese/comment-page-1/#comment-5536 Lynette Summerill Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:05:49 +0000 http://www.healthbolt.net/2008/07/16/this-is-one-way-we-do-not-want-to-be-like-the-japanese/#comment-5536 Love the post. As wonderful as the Japanese people are, they have always been rote --and thus less innovative than many other industrialized countries. Now we know why. It is difficult to be innovative when you are so darn tired you can think straight;the old brain (and apparently other necessary organs) just shuts down. They need some good old-fashioned Nerf Office Wars, and more time to sleep. Love the post. As wonderful as the Japanese people are, they have always been rote –and thus less innovative than many other industrialized countries. Now we know why. It is difficult to be innovative when you are so darn tired you can think straight;the old brain (and apparently other necessary organs) just shuts down. They need some good old-fashioned Nerf Office Wars, and more time to sleep.

]]> http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/this-is-one-way-we-do-not-want-to-be-like-the-japanese/comment-page-1/#comment-5532 Sara Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:49:47 +0000 http://www.healthbolt.net/2008/07/16/this-is-one-way-we-do-not-want-to-be-like-the-japanese/#comment-5532 Call be a bitter post-call intern, but we're "only" allowed to work 80 hours a week. If you're calling a 40-hour work week a normal week, then that works out to a whopping 160 hours of overtime a month, and there are many old timers who call us spoiled for keeping such "light" hours. That guy with all that overtime worked, on average, about a 13-hour day. That's what I do on my light days. A heavy day? Well, that's like yesterday, or today - I went to work at 5:30 am Wednesday, and left work at 9am Thursday. I had the amazing luxury of about three hours of sleep. I know, I know - physician, heal thyself. If only it were that simple... Call be a bitter post-call intern, but we’re “only” allowed to work 80 hours a week. If you’re calling a 40-hour work week a normal week, then that works out to a whopping 160 hours of overtime a month, and there are many old timers who call us spoiled for keeping such “light” hours. That guy with all that overtime worked, on average, about a 13-hour day. That’s what I do on my light days. A heavy day? Well, that’s like yesterday, or today – I went to work at 5:30 am Wednesday, and left work at 9am Thursday. I had the amazing luxury of about three hours of sleep.
I know, I know – physician, heal thyself. If only it were that simple…

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