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Article: MEDICAL INTERNS SEEK LIMITS ON WORK HOURS.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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Byline: Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Medical residents are pressing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to set limits on the hours they may work each week.
The physicians-in-training say they regularly clock 95 hours a week and as many as 136 hours, increasing their risk of auto accidents, depression and other health problems.
''Any system allowing its workers to be subjected to such direct threats to their well-being is seriously flawed,'' said a petition being filed Monday by medical residents and health advocates. ''For OSHA not to regulate resident work hours is to abdicate its responsibility to protect the health of those ...