Is there any scientific evidence that working 60 hours a week is causal factor leading to improved dental outcomes? My hypothesis: the workaholic you describe would produce worse outcomes, as is typical of individualist "hero" doctors. The best outcomes in medicine come from following established best practices (established via experimental study) in an orderly and consistent fashion. This means well established procedures, work done by alert and well-rested people with good attention to detail and willingness to follow those procedures, and as little a role as possible for seat-of-the-pants, non-data-driven "judgment calls" based on small-sample pattern-matching to the doctor's individual past experience. This is the main take-away of the evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement of the past few decades.
Speaking of real people in the real world, Denmark reduced its workweek from 40 to 37 hours, and this did not produce any decline in medical outcomes. I suspect reducing to 35 or 33 or 30 would also have no such effect.
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Is there any scientific evidence that working 60 hours a week is causal factor leading to improved dental outcomes? My hypothesis: the workaholic you describe would produce worse outcomes, as is typical of individualist "hero" doctors. The best outcomes in medicine come from following established best practices (established via experimental study) in an orderly and consistent fashion. This means well established procedures, work done by alert and well-rested people with good attention to detail and willingness to follow those procedures, and as little a role as possible for seat-of-the-pants, non-data-driven "judgment calls" based on small-sample pattern-matching to the doctor's individual past experience. This is the main take-away of the evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement of the past few decades.
Speaking of real people in the real world, Denmark reduced its workweek from 40 to 37 hours, and this did not produce any decline in medical outcomes. I suspect reducing to 35 or 33 or 30 would also have no such effect.
You are being over literal. The point is, in jobs where experience matters, more will trump less most times.