New Zealand is driving medical residents to nervous breakdowns

They’re responding by considering going on strike:

Like most junior doctors, he worked 12 days without a break, including 16-hour shifts. The shortest day was a busy 10 hours ending at 6pm -– scarcely enough time to get home to read his two children a bedtime story. Somehow, he also found time to study for and pass a tough exam.

“I was super-stressed out.”

The death of one of his patients proved the final straw. “I became too scared to see a patient in case I killed one. If you cock up, someone dies.”

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