Corinne Sundar Rao
Internal medicine physician and commentator on physician labor issues, author of the article 'Physician on-call compensation: the unpaid labor driving burnout', speaking about on-call work, compensation, and physician burnout.
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Mar 1, 2026 • 16min
Unpaid on-call shifts are driving doctors into early retirement
Corinne Sundar Rao, an internal medicine physician and commentator on physician labor, argues that unpaid "call" masks real work. She discusses how privileges force mandatory overnight coverage, contrasts old models with modern hospital realities, and highlights alternatives like hospitalists and nocturnists. The conversation urges treating on-call time as measurable, paid labor with required post-call rest.
