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There was one day where I worked for about 20 hours and the next day I was absolutely exhausted.

And I wanted to have a quick break and then return back to the operating theatre.

I wasn't allowed to, the consultant said to me, oh, I remember working those hours as a registrar,

it's good for you.

Exhaustion, depression, even thoughts of suicide. In today's Business Daily with me, Vivian

Nunes, I'm exploring the work pressures, pushing some doctors to

breaking point. I saw medicine in its heyday, and I knew what a real doctor was, and that's what I wanted

to do. I wanted to do house calls and be the womb to tomb physician that you and your family members

could trust for a lifetime. I actually became suicidal to the point where I did not get out

of bed for six weeks and I was just praying for my own death. Medicine has long been looked upon

as a respectable career. We trust doctors with our lives and in return we expect certain standards

of care. But what if those doctors were under so much pressure and working

such long hours, their jobs became impossible? And yet they felt unable to speak out. Today we're

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