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...chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes that often stem from unhealthy behaviors. Says Rachel Permuth-Levine, a deputy director at the National Institutes of Health: "Given that many employers are staggering under health-insurance costs linked to these diseases, prevention should be a no-brainer." (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...granted, mandatory uninterrupted five-hour naps for longer work sessions, lighter workloads and more oversight from experienced physicians. (The current standards set in 2003 by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, or ACGME, mandate 80-hour average workweeks, with no shift to exceed 30 hours.) (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...work hours in a single stretch. The term resident is in fact no accident, says Dr. Teryl Nuckols, an internist and assistant professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, who says that when she was in training 10 years ago, 36-hour shifts without rest were common. "[Residents] used to live in the hospital," Nuckols says. "They were there 24/7...
...almost every night. The threat to his safety from Iraqis infuriated by these photos is not theoretical. For me, this reality - lived each day by hundreds of thousands of parents of soldiers, diplomats and aid workers - transcends the redundant right to know something we already know. It is simple common sense - the quality that should be foremost as Barack Obama addresses these issues...
...March, she dispatched a regiment of role models to schools across Washington, including singers Alicia Keys and Sheryl Crow, Ann Dunwoody, the first female four-star general, and Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to travel into space. Michelle visited Anacostia High School, where violence is common and signs on the walls tell students which baby supplies will be available through the Baby Bonus Bucks Redemption Program. She sat with a group of 10 girls and three boys, who had been chosen, she told them, because "somebody in your school thought that you had a lot of potential...