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International Journal for Quality in Health Care 15:107-108 (2003)
© 2003 International Society for Quality in Health Care

Counterpoint

Residents’ work hours: a wake up call?

Troyen A. Brennan and Michael J. Zinner

Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

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Reduction of resident work hours seems from many perspectives a sensible idea, which is long over due. Long hours in training, a phenomenon which is rooted in a tradition of arduous labor on the behalf of patients and a sense of professional development, appears to many observers as little more than a form of sophisticated hazing that is indeed quite dangerous. Simply put, no one would fly on a plane in which a pilot in training had been awake for 30 hours, especially if . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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