The noble self sacrifice thing that doctors are expected to pull really scares me. All the practicing docs I've met seem to have stable happy home lives and are way more chill than I am, as a med student.

I hope to be the kind of physician who would do anything for their patient, the self sacrifice seems to be appropriate there. But do patients really benefit from some of the stuff that interns and residents are asked to do?

I have no idea what the actual field is like but I'm not trying to fuck myself over just so somebody can turn a profit. Got to be a way to look out for number one while still having a job and providing excellent medicine for your patients.