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Neil H. Hyman, MD; Robert A. Kozol, MD; Orlando C. Kirton, MD; David L. Berger, MD

Arch Surg. 2008;143(5):443.

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At the annual meeting of the New England Surgical Society in Burlington, Vermont, a panel convened to debate the implications of attending surgeon work hour restrictions, presenting experience with work hour restrictions and then presenting arguments for and against their use. The following is a brief Commentary summarizing this discussion.

In the United States, the 2000 Institute of Medicine report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, centered the concept of medical errors firmly in the minds of politicians, third-party payers, the national media, and patients. The concept of fatigue causing physicians to err was a central force.¹Although resident training hours have been restricted by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education since 2003, there is no legislative, board, or American College of Surgeons initiative addressing attending surgeon work hours. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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