Reducing Resident Work Hours: Unproven Assumptions and Unforeseen Outcomes

Reducing work hours limits the numbers of patients that residents care for and the extent of residents' involvement with individual patients, which affects both patient care and the education of the authors' future physicians.

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In the Balance18 May 2004Reducing Resident Work Hours: Unproven Assumptions and Unforeseen OutcomesMitchell Charap, MDMitchell Charap, MDFrom New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-140-10-200405180-00011 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail "There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief."There is too much confusion, I can't get no relief.Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.""No reason to get excited," the thief he kindly spoke,"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke,But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."–Bob DylanIn the 25 years that I have been teaching in ...References1. 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