Would you be happy to be handled by an anesthesiologist who&#x27;s in a hurry to get out as soon as possible, because they don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s happening with their children? Yeah, it&#x27;s a bad choice, or a bad choice.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why you think &quot;Medicine was always about putting the patients&#x27; needs above your own&quot;. Many hospital employees do. But I&#x27;ve never heard of medicine as a whole having that rule.<p>If you expect doctors to act like everyone&#x27;s needs are above theirs, you&#x27;ll end up with a current situation in the UK. Junior doctors who are overworked, hate the situation, government that wants to pay them even less for more hours (they&#x27;ve got patients to see, right?), and are more and more likely to move abroad - rather than just treat with respect like any other normal employee. And that&#x27;s not even mentioning the dangerous situations created by tired doctors.