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Medical residents lack sleep, despite policy change

Despite a policy passed to limit the number of hours per week and at a stretch worked by medical residents, they are still working too many hours with not enough sleep. The number of residents that worked 30 or more hour shifts numbered 57%, down from 80% before 2003. There is a federal law in the U.S. that limits the amount of time that high-risk professionals like airline pilots and nuclear facility workers are allowed to work, but doctors have been left to monitor times and themselves.

Read the full article here: http://nerve.neurology.unc.edu/sleep/sleep_hygene.htm