The NY Times writes about resident work hours
“‘Medicine is a service industry, a profession that is not 8 to 5,’ said Dr. Rohack, a cardiologist. ‘Patients get sick on Christmas Day. Ditto 2 o’clock in the morning, and as a physician you need to be able to take care of them. Do physicians put in long hours? Yeah, they do.'”
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