Long hours lead to personal and patient safety problems, study finds
Monday, November 1, 2010 - 09:00
in Health & Medicine
Just as with everyone else perhaps, the more hours surgeons work, and the more nights they spend on call each week, the more likely they are to face burn-out, depression, dissatisfaction with their careers and serious work-home conflicts, according to a major new study led by Johns Hopkins and Mayo Clinic researchers.