Post by Logan on Dec 16, 2016 20:01:12 GMT -6
The private group that oversees physician training in the United States has proposed rolling back rules so that young doctors just out of medical school can work shifts as long as 28 hours.
The proposal relaxes work restrictions put in place in 2011 when mounting evidence showed that exhausted residents - the term for doctors in training - were endangering patients and themselves. Currently, first-year residents are restricted to 16-hour shifts.
Studies show that residents make more potentially deadly errors in caring for patients the longer they work.
The extended shifts also expose residents to an increased risk of car accidents as they drive home from work. At the University of California, Los Angeles, nearly 20 percent of residents said in a 2007 survey that they had fallen asleep while driving because of work-related fatigue.
Read more here: www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article121454582.html
The proposal relaxes work restrictions put in place in 2011 when mounting evidence showed that exhausted residents - the term for doctors in training - were endangering patients and themselves. Currently, first-year residents are restricted to 16-hour shifts.
Studies show that residents make more potentially deadly errors in caring for patients the longer they work.
The extended shifts also expose residents to an increased risk of car accidents as they drive home from work. At the University of California, Los Angeles, nearly 20 percent of residents said in a 2007 survey that they had fallen asleep while driving because of work-related fatigue.
Read more here: www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article121454582.html