Despite concerns from the public about safety, the private group that oversees physician training voted to allow young doctors to work shifts as long as 28 hours.
The new rules, which begin on July 1, relax work restrictions put in place in 2011, when mounting evidence showed that exhausted residents — the term for doctors in training — were endangering both patients and themselves. Currently, first-year residents are restricted to 16-hour shifts.
Leaders of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education said the work limits for first-year residents, known as interns, needed to be extended to match the 28-hour shifts now allowed for more experienced trainees. They said it was harming interns’ education by reducing their time in the hospital.
Surgeons had been especially critical of the 16-hour limits, saying that at times interns were forced to leave the surgical team during an operation to avoid breaking the rules.
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5 comments:
This is not good.
Law enforcement does it all the time and it's not just the young guys either.
Doctors can work 28 hour shifts, but paramedics in Ocean City can't...... Hmmmm, what about that statement just doesn't add up?? Mr Mayor and City Councilpersons, perhaps you should pass along your erroneous findings about your sleepy paramedics.
Hope their not surgeons, would not want them doing any surgery on such little sleep-----crazy.
Your an idiot, read close, it's clear they aren't providing the same quality of care. It's all about your second jobs, and your benefit, not about the public you promised to serve. You should be ashamed!
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