They kept tracing their exhaustion back to one word.

Not hours.

Not patients.

Not paperwork.

A "calling."

But then someone said the quiet part out loud.

What if "call" is just a nicer word for free labor?

Internal medicine physician Corinne Sundar Rao discusses her article "Physician on-call compensation: the unpaid labor driving burnout."

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