Fast forward?

Hours in training? Never really thought about it, mainly because it was never an issue. About 5500 hours? Sound about right, for the first year at least? Probably: about 90 on a good week; 120 or more with the weekend on call; and let's just ignore the really bad weeks, when one's co-resident on a pair of wards was off on holiday: weeks that, however dire, could at least never go beyond 168.

Not sure about the training, though. For …