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To sleep, or not to sleep? For residents, that is the question
When it comes to resident hours and whether they should be required to get more sleep, few, if any, can come to a consensus. Case in point, a recent article in the Los Angeles Times that compares the
After-hours work could pay off for primary-care docs in Maryland
The Maryland General Assembly and insurers are hoping that paying more to primary-care physicians who work off-hours will pay off with healthier patients and lower overall health costs. Always in
Physician shortage could worsen if decline in fees, hours worked, continues
A decline in the number of hours worked by doctors correlates with a gradual drop-off of physician fees since 1995, reports a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical
