Are these really the people that should be required to work so much? Isn’t their job about handling life and death daily? Wouldn’t we want exactly these people to come fully rested to work every single day and be fully staffed?
I don’t know if there are jobs with similar stakes that are so carelessly staffed and disgustingly paid.
The greatest fear of capitalist administrators is that there might be a slow night in the hospital and a few employees have some down time to take a breath where no “production” is taking place. The shareholders would not be amused. That’s why they staff hospitals with the bare minimum, paying them as little as possible and using them as much as possible.