I was reading the newspaper just now; the Comments page. Someone wrote 'Doctors/med students should not work for 36 hours straight' (I'm paraphrasing).

Something struck me, and I went to check. I have these random notes everywhere; based on ER (I know it's a TV show, but their writers are doctors), surgical interns (Basically in between med student and doctor) in the US (At least, at that time, and at that particular fictional hospital) work 36 hour shifts. My notes, which aren't really notes, and actually is this insanity of a fic written with Yih Shan has a quote as, "Surgeons working 36 hour shifts should not be able to run betting rings." "But I'm in the hospital all the time! It works"

Anyway, the point being, Malaysia's going to have really lousy doctors then.

When you want to be a doctor, before you think about soothing your God Complex, you need to know the amount of stress and insanity you're going to go through in your Internship (Housemanship in this country, I think) and early years of practicing medicine. If you can't handle your stress, forget about saving lives.

But then again, the episode of ER in which I got the 36 hour thing from was the one where Corday, who was having issues with her fellowship, was having to redo a year of internship or something, and she killed a patient or something like that because she was too tired. I can't really remember.