100 Hour Work Week

The older and more exclusive the organization, the more abusive the initiation rituals. If you don't survive, you don't belong. Sometimes the gauntlet is stacked against you if the organization or a powerful member doesn't want a prospective member in the club. The resident initiation treats newcomers like slime and eventually it rolls downhill to the patients. The doctors enforce this ritual, not the hospitals. As for logbooks, truckers have been creatively dealing with those for decades. I am an ex-submariner--very familiar with sleep deprivation. The only time we ever had incidents with the reactor was during the 2-week "certs" (Rickover torture)during which nuke crewmembers were not expected to get any sleep(that calculates to a goal of 336 straight hours awake. Of course people did fall asleep, usually during a critical evolution. Even with 2-man rule on all critical evolutions, mistakes were inevitable. The unfortunate were pilloried. Does the torture make for significantly better practitioners?

Benn there done that past out many times from exhaustion my mind was gone from too much work. I walked around in a fog and actually created many cost savings for my company but they never rewarded me because I was to busy working to demands compensation. GO FIGURE