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July effect: New interns 'perfect storm' for higher mortality rates

A new study published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine confirms the notorious "July effect" in which mortality rates rise and efficiency declines during the summer month as the new class of

Residents' inexperience, fatigue concern physicians and the public

A new study by researchers at University of California at San Diego provides some of the hardest evidence yet for a phenomenon physicians have long referred to as the "July effect": a spike in