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According to a study of 4,510 obstetric-gynecologic residents, 71.3% reported sleeping less than 3 hours while on night call. [4] In a survey of 3,604 first- and second-year residents, 20% reported sleeping an average of 5 hours or less per night, and 66% averaged 6 hours or less per night. [5]
The Bell Commission recommendations that attending physicians should be present at all times and limiting residents to 80 hours a week and 24 hours at a time were adopted by New York in 1989. Implementation of the recommendations caused some hospitals to introduce doctors who worked overnight to spell their colleagues. [ 15 ]
I know I was working 90-110 some times before and less than 80 afterwards, but obviously anecdotal. InvictaHOG 11:29, 6 January 2006 (UTC) Heh. Actually physicians work long hours, especially hospital based physicians. My work hours went up after graduating residency. I dare say that applies for a lot of physicians. And I vote Merge.
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Gawande wrote this during his general surgery residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and was published in 2002 by Picador. [1] The book is divided into three sections: Fallibility, Mystery, and Uncertainty, all going in depth into the problems physicians may face when practicing a variety of procedures in medicine. [ 2 ]
Some adults need nine or 10 hours of sleep every night to feel rested, says Harris, whereas others may find they only need seven, and sleeping more isn’t necessarily better.
He started his surgical residency in July 1931 at the Cleveland City Hospital; he was the first Black intern to work there. [3] [4] [10] His two years in Cleveland included the study of thoracic surgery. [3] He then completed a surgical residency at Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School from 1933 to 1934. [3]
He had already started a landscaping job and lined up a room to share in a sober-living house in nearby Covington. He felt good. On his first night out of rehab, he stayed up late, too excited to sleep. He kept up with his meetings and the Grateful Life aftercare program. But less than three months into his living on his own, his phone buzzed.