207 Hours Overtime: Japanese Man in Kobe Worked to Death - Unseen Japan
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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.

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

  • Chetzemoka
    23•11 months ago

    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.

    • @philpo@feddit.de
      3•11 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…