> Many programmers in the tech community know that half of the listed time (12 hours) of solid work is enough to start to slow your decision-making and reasoning ability.
I don't think it's fair to compare doctors who have a rigorous medical school and academic path to 'programmers' which includes a wide group of people some of which haven't even graduated college. This is simply a different group of people at the core. And even within that group there are those (in medicine) that choose what appears to be an easier path (let's say psych or family medicine) vs. surgery which might involve standing in an operating theater for 9 to 12 hours and having to be attentive. Along the same lines it is a bit different to make the grade to fly a small single engine airplane (get training) and be able to fly and land fighter jets on an aircraft carrier.
Not taking away from your point of slowing decision making and reasoning but quite honestly not everyone is built from the same bolt of cloth and is impacted the same.
One small example. My wife would take call overnight, get woken up regularly, and easily get back to bed and be fresh the next day at the hospital. If I get woken up (and I am not a programmer) I can't fall back to sleep and would be a wreck the next day. People are different and in some cases the career path and training separates the type of people that end up being in the profession.
I don't think it's fair to compare doctors who have a rigorous medical school and academic path to 'programmers' which includes a wide group of people some of which haven't even graduated college. This is simply a different group of people at the core. And even within that group there are those (in medicine) that choose what appears to be an easier path (let's say psych or family medicine) vs. surgery which might involve standing in an operating theater for 9 to 12 hours and having to be attentive. Along the same lines it is a bit different to make the grade to fly a small single engine airplane (get training) and be able to fly and land fighter jets on an aircraft carrier.
Not taking away from your point of slowing decision making and reasoning but quite honestly not everyone is built from the same bolt of cloth and is impacted the same.
One small example. My wife would take call overnight, get woken up regularly, and easily get back to bed and be fresh the next day at the hospital. If I get woken up (and I am not a programmer) I can't fall back to sleep and would be a wreck the next day. People are different and in some cases the career path and training separates the type of people that end up being in the profession.