European Working Time Directive vs Surgeons and Patients

Everyone knows that it is actively impossible to run a service and then train people without working a bog-standard 8-6 hour week (even that's over the 48 hr limit). Imagine, no on-calls, no nights, nothing actively possible unless you're not there during the day. Means nothing ever actively gets done!

Here's the Royal College of Surgeons' Take on it:

RCS President John Black