‘After working for 29 hours...I drove home and crashed my car’: Doctors leaving Ireland due to hours and 'negativity'

Doctors say they have left Ireland because of “inordinate” responsibility, hours so long that one crashed his car on the way home from work, and a “climate of negativity”, according to a study.

It also found more than half have no intention of returning to work here, with the research concluding: “Respondent doctors are exiting the Irish health system because of a deterioration in medical job quality to the point of extremity.”