It is swings and roundabouts.
My OH (who is probably roughly contemporary with galen) worked very long hours indeed as a junior doctor. I hardly saw him when our first two children were small; and I was basically a single mother. This was not a good thing. He would come home occasionally, but all he did was sleep. I would not wish that new young doctors miss out on family life in that way. He was very tired indeed, did not have proper meals and it was not a positive experience on a personal level.
But .......... he always says that, if he had not done all this work, he would not have been able to gain the necessary experience to function as the GP that he eventually became, and is concerned that new junior doctors do not have sufficient learning and experience under their belts to be safe. But neither are they safe when they are suffering from sleep deprivation.
I would hope that they do not strike - but, times have changed, and, quite rightly, workers' rights (in any profession) have been improved and we cannot turn the clock back on that, and I would not wish to. The good old days were not really very good and I support the idea of better working conditions.