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...help or a hazard. An oft cited 2004 study of intensive-care units found that medical residents made 36% more serious mistakes during 30-hour shifts than during shifts half as long. So the simple solution to ensuring patient safety - and resident sanity - would appear to be reducing the length of their shifts, a plan endorsed by a lengthy Institute of Medicine (IOM) report in December 2008 that assessed the impact of resident fatigue and proposed a new set of guidelines restricting shifts to 16 continuous hours if no rest is granted, mandatory uninterrupted five-hour naps for longer work...
First there was Captain Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger, walking the length of his sinking plane to be sure every last passenger was safely off. Then came Captain Richard Phillips, battling pirates in angry seas. And finally there's Susan Boyle, the unemployed church lady whose dying mother had told her to chase her ridiculous dreams of musical stardom...
...Great Wall of Bacteria: Discovery of Intrisic Glycan Chain Length Biases in Penicillin Binding Proteins...
...Harvard brags that it has the most sports. To cut JV baseball after such a long tradition is frustrating.” Several athletes voiced their dissatisfaction in how the athletic department has treated JV sports. Players cited a short game schedule, administrative disorganization, and arms-length treatment by the athletic department. According to Kelly N. Bodwin ’11, the athletic department scheduled just a single game against a high school team for JV softball last year. “It’s pretty clear [the athletic department] only cares about varsity,” said Bodwin...
...allegations. The complaint filed by the FBI does not list them, citing their "suspect" nature. And though Sypher has told her story to some Louisville media, thus far no outlet has published or broadcast them. She first went to WDRB-TV, a Fox affiliate, which interviewed her at length and also arranged a polygraph test that proved inconclusive. The station decided not to air the interview, news director Barry Fulmer told TIME, because so many of Sypher's charges are unsubstantiated. Sypher has also spoken to Louisville's Courier-Journal newspaper and to ESPN.com...