80

Eighty is the other limit. We cannot work more than eighty hours a week. Which is odd because to some people it seems like so much, and yet now that I am here, I realize it's really easy to hit eighty. No problem at all. It is interesting because the 80 hour work week was conjured up from nowhere; a committee sat down and picked an arbitrary number. Is it too much? Too little? I'm not sure; but I can tell you without doubt that 80 hours is not enough time for me to be the kind of doctor I want to be. And yet at the same time, 80 hours is fiercely exhausting.