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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] 46 points 10 months ago (7 children)

80 hours.

What an absolute acid trip of a country.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Find a country where medical residency doesn't work like this. It's an archaic holdover from the 1800s era when student doctors were trained by apprenticeship

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (4 children)

But…. apprenticeships don’t have to be like that. Like there are apprenticeships for many other jobs, and they never are this abusive and awful.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

My apprenticeship is 4 years long and I work 36 hours a week, then need to do the learning and academic work which is around an additional 35 hours a week.

I'm just rolling into year 4 and I'm pretty tired now.

I'm also the only one left, everyone else who started in my cohort has dropped out because of the workload.

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