Restrictions on work hours don’t exist when you’re an attending. Will today’s residents be ready?
So you’re a general surgery intern. You’ll be working 80 hour weeks (and possibly less than 60 hrs if further reforms are implemented). Post call, you’ll be eating breakfast and reading the newspaper in the comforts of your own home by 8am, irrespective of any work that remains to be done on the patients you cared for over the night . . . Will you be ready for the sort of weekend I just described when you’re an attending surgeon?
