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Medical Residents Work Long Hours Despite Rules

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More than 10 years after she was a internal medicine resident, Dr. Vineet Arora still considers how her changes utilized to end. She states the best shift change was one that didn't need her to move single client to the next bunch of residents. "A good sign out was 'nothing to do,'" she recalls. "When I trained, you worked here until your work was done.". But things have actually altered a great deal since then. Now, Arora is the associate director of the University of Chicago's internal medicine residency program. And the residents she supervises aren't allowed to work indefinitely long changes. Rules implemented nationally in 2003, and tightened last year, put a tough cap on the length of residents' changes : no even more than 16 hours for first-year residents or interns, and no even more than 28 hours in one shift for others.

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Dr. Vineet Arora

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0"If you lie about your hours, are you more likely to lie about other things?" she tells ...
0"If you lie about your hours, are you more likely to lie about other things?" she tells Shots. "You've already engaged in misdocumentation."
0.0353035She says some doctors who did their residencies before the new shift rules went into effect look down on new residents — something Arora calls "generation bashing."
-0.0670072"In our program, we let our residents know that we don't want them to stay," Arora says. ...
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