Study links errors by doctors to long hours

So now what?

Suppose they cut the hours trainees work. One problem possibly solved.

But, will the researchers contact the families of those killed or injured by their stuporous physicians? Will the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education assume responsibility for the bad limits they established?

Stay tuned.

"If these findings are applied to all 100,000 young doctors working such schedules at U.S. hospitals, he said, that means there are nearly 100,000 significant medical mistakes, tens of thousands of preventable injuries to patients and thousands of preventable deaths that are fatigue-related every year."

"The study examined the issue of these doctors-in-training working within work-hour limits established by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education."