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207 Hours Overtime: Japanese Man in Kobe Worked to Death (unseen-japan.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A medical resident worked 207 hours of overtime in a month. His case highlights Japan's continuing problem with karoshi - death by overwork.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This shit right here. We need to completely overhaul the medical residency system. Corporations are literally killing these workers for profit and the hazing culture of medicine continues to ignore that fact.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, let's not forget that the residency system was designed by someone who took massive amounts of cocaine....and back then the concentration of work was not nearly as bad....