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...good news is that Landrigan??€™s team found that the new rules were effective in decreasing residents’ marathon work weeks, even if the decrease wasn’t in absolute compliance with the ACGME’s work limits. But for compliance to further improve, hospitals—including Harvard’s throng of teaching hospitals—should continue to introduce institutional changes that make compliance easier for residents. The HMS report, for example, suggests not requiring residents to work up to the very last minute of their scheduled shift, a situation which often...
...residents work no more than 13 hours per day and 58 hours per week. While we understand the need for intensive training for our next generation of doctors, it shouldn’t be so intensive that they injure their patients, or themselves, in the process. We echo Landrigan??€™s suggestions that hospitals must commit more resources and energy to reducing the load on their first-year residents, and if hospitals are unable to comply with the ACGME’s rules, then Congressional intervention may be necessary at some future date...
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