This is after working 6 day a week day shifts, and they give us one day to swap to nights. I'm here bc i'm exhausted. we're paid the equivalent of like $15/hr with 5 sick days, and if you call out someone has to come in to cover you, so it's not guilt-free. I have 1 day off to recover, and I basically work every day of the week because I get off at 7am saturday morning and I come back at 7pm sunday night. I have another week of this. They call 2 day weekends “golden weekends” – no, those are just regular ass weekends.
Resident doctors can't advocate for themselves for fear of backlash from program administration and the hospital, which can impede your ability to graduate or get a good recommendation for a future job. They mostly make between 50-70k/year depending on cost of living, and student loan repayments are about to restart. Our salaries have not kept up at all with the rate of inflation, and most of us are saddled with 200-400k of debt now. Some hospitals are also private, which makes it an even bigger uphill battle. And we're overworked and underpaid and aren't given time to take care of ourselves let alone advocate for ourselves. And hospitals are also suffering from staffing issues, but they're unwilling to pay for more doctors and instead hire more NPs and PAs, who have their own roles in healthcare but they're not doctors – because attending doctors COST MORE MONEY. They are providing patients with subpar/substandard care by not hiring doctors simply on the basis of not wanting to pay for what a doctor is actually worth. Healthcare cannot go on like this.