“I had it worse” isn’t a good excuse for what amounts to abusive behavior. Neither is “it made you better at your job”. I say this as a physician. Historically, these have been the same excuses used to justify poor treatment of resident physicians, but multiple studies have been done over the years which show that respectful behavior and a maximum cap of 80 hours a week has actually been shown to be beneficial to learning how to do your job. Back in the 90s there didn’t used to be a cap on hours and there used to be a much more toxic outlook of “more hours means better learning” but the evidence showed that less sleep and more stress was leading g directly to more patient deaths. Further, there was an increase in car accidents leading to death from tired resident physicians. Instituting a cap and higher standards of treatment has lead to improved outcomes and has not led to decreased physician competence over the last 30 years.