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Article: Long Work Hours Put Residents on the Picket Line.(medical residents protest lack of work hour limits)(Brief Article)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Medical students are going public with the message that overworked residents are a threat to patient safety.
Kevin Baran, a second-year medical student at the University of Connecticut, Farmington, was one of four students who stayed awake for 24 hours and underwent a series of tests to show that reaction time degrades as a result of sleep deprivation.
"Medical students are getting sick of everyone sitting on the wayside" and ignoring the fact that no national work-hour limit exists for medical residents, Mr. Baran said. "We don't want to be hurting patients because of the system."
The University of Connecticut study was one of three informal ...