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Hello Again Ari from Australia.

Love the Bibimbap recipe as so cool and easy. And cabbage an interesting plant. My dad able to grow a good crop in Outback Queensland despite high summer temp of 40 -45 degrees , low rainfall and surprisingly severe winter frost.

And your Doctor's Strike story. Worried and concerned a bit.

Quick number crunching and it seems you only graduate half the numbers we do per capita and we think we need maybe another 1000 graduates per years as we rely on overseas trained doctors a lot to make up the shortfall.

I graduated at age 22, and have worked so far for almost 43 yrs in the profession.

The suggested working hours are in my mind pretty scandalous and dangerous, and not to say good for a work life balance and family. In my state we signed undated letters of resignation back in the 1980's to force the government to agree to reasonable working hours. So an almost strike.

Acute and chronic sleep deprivation as well as shift hours have very negative effects on cognitive function and performance; so bad stuff while on the job and then driving home; equivalent to drunk working and then drunk driving.

So probably on the side of the change for more doctors, and can't see the reason to protest unless it to support a monopoly. I would be striking about the working hours.

And like your language segment. Cristoffa.

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We also need more doctors in France! But I think the doctors will be happy if they accepted more graduates. They are all exhausted because of the hours they're working and the increasing number of patients.

80.5 hours... Is that even living? 🥲

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