>If you visit an ED at the weekend, the resident physician who deals with you may have been on shift without a break for 36 hours. And now she's going to stick an instrument in you or prescribe medications.
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>FWIW, that's progress: in my day we'd start on Saturday morning and remain on duty until Monday afternoon- a 56-hour shift. We did that every second weekend while still working Monday-to-Friday with one or two of those weekdays being 32-hour shifts as well.

Come to think of it, I have pulled several all-nighters, but didn't count them because this wasn't programming :). I was the technical support for a newspaper that was supposed to go digital from day one - which would mean gathering on a Sunday after lunch, and splitting at Monday 07:30 or so. I'd actually stay to have a coffee with the gang before going home to sleep. Somewhere around the 6th issue the publisher ran out of money, good for me.