Long hours for medical interns despite rules
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Rules designed to prevent doctors in   training from having to work hours on end with little sleep   have failed to reform the practice, researchers said on   Tuesday.
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A judge rejected a Harvard student's request Wednesday for extra break time during her nine-hour medical licensing exam so she could pump breast milk for her infant daughter. Sophie Currier, 33, sued after the National Board of Medical Examiners turned down her request to take more than the standard 45 minutes in breaks during the exam.
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The Schneider Medical Clinic was once open seven days a week for as many as 11 hours a day. Patients, scheduled 10 minutes apart, often waited hours for an appointment.
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The average IT worker logs in more work hours -- sometimes way more -- than the average American. Here are 10 ways to make sure that employee isn't you.
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America&#39;s doctors-in-training are committing serious errors as a result of being forced to work more than 80 hours a week, says new research which suggests the US medical community has
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Patients in intensive care units are so busy being poked, prodded, jabbed and medicated that they rarely have time for sleep.
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Americans have a harder time than residents of several other countries getting after-hours appointments with a nurse or primary care physician without going to an emergency room, a study released yesterday found.
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It seems that more and more medical students and young doctors show up for clinical work in less-than-professional attire.
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The afternoon she walked into the office of internist Wayne Meyer, Deborah Kaplan had never felt worse. Hours earlier Kaplan had been sent home from a Maryland emergency room with a diagnosis of chickenpox. She was too sick to cool her heels for the customary 2 1/2 hours in the waiting room of he...
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Those strangers waiting at the doctorâs office may share a pain that others canât understand.
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When a person is first  diagnosed with cancer and undergoes treatment, their work may  suffer; but in the long run, most people who survive cancer  work a similar number of hours as anyone else, new study  findings show.
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Sometimes it takes one doctor's persistence to help a desperate patient find relief.
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In a city saturated with academic healthcare institutions, perhaps what is surprising about Paul Levy's Internet blog is that it took so long for a Boston hospital chief executive to catch the bug.
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Medical training takes a lot of schooling: Years of academic learning in med school; a period of internship, in which students train in a number of areas; and residency, where students do on-the-job training in a chosen field.
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America's doctors-in-training are  committing serious errors as a result of being forced to work  over 80 hours a week, says new research which suggests the U.S.  medical community has been slow to tackle sleep deprivation in  its staff.
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Many NHS trusts are failing to meet core standards for out-of-hours primary care, statistics show.
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This small medical laboratory has a real server room, complete with a UPS that has more than seven hours of runtime. Or at least that's what the departing sysadmin tells his replacement.