Are these really the people that should be required to work so much? Isn’t their job about handling life and death daily? Wouldn’t we want exactly these people to come fully rested to work every single day and be fully staffed?
I don’t know if there are jobs with similar stakes that are so carelessly staffed and disgustingly paid.
There’s a number of factors at play and rest is only one of them. Other factors are cost cutting in hiring and risk of information loss or error during patient transfers.