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the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Halifax, 2004.03.20

Today I went into work for what was supposed to be four hours. It became ten. I've put in twenty unpaid hours of overtime at Keane this week. The guys on my team tell me that this is normal for the time you're "on call". I wonder how doctors and nurses cope with this on a regular basis?

rand()m quote

A thousand miles of barbed wire begins with a single barb.

—Mick Farren