So clearly surgery isn't for you, then.
But I LOL'ed at the part where attendings and residents don't read at home.
I read more now than I did as a resident, which was more than I read as a med student. Because if I don't know the latest work in my field, my patients pay the price.
Also, 600 pages/8 weeks = roughly 11 pages a day, less than a high school student's capabilities.
Since I have left residency, I routinely read about 20 journal articles a month. Even being generous and saying each article is 7 pages (they are usually 7-10), the least I read is 140 pages a month, and the most is 200. That's not for a single stretch of a rotation. That is every single month, in addition to full time clinical duty, working 80 hours a week and fielding patient calls, preparing for cases, etc.
Students have zero patient responsibility. Their job is to study. Pardon us for actually expecting them to.