TY - JOUR
AU - Fulop, Milford
AB - Abstract To the Editor.— The recent article by Nerenz et al1 highlighted some serious problems concerning how interns spend their on-call time. Ideally, the study should also have included an analysis of how the interns spent the other 2.5 to 3.5 days of their on-call/off-call cycles. The day after their on-call duty, they may well have had to recover from that ordeal, but then they had 1.5 to 2.5 days until the next stint. That gave them time to talk with their patients, to interact with supervisors, to read—and to eat and sleep. I do not argue that how the interns spent their on-call time was appropriate or justifiable, but only that the picture that Nerenz et al gave of their hospital lives is incomplete.Years ago, interns were less harried, at least partly because they admitted patients 4 to 5 days of each week, and not just during 1 References 1. Nerenz D, Rosman H, Newcomb C, et al. The on-call experience of interns in internal medicine . Arch Intern Med. 1990;150:2294-2297.Crossref
TI - Residents' Patterns Admitting
JF - Archives of Internal Medicine
DO - 10.1001/archinte.1991.00400070198034
DA - 1991-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-medical-association/residents-patterns-admitting-PM69Inu7s7
SP - 1458
EP - 1458
VL - 151
IS - 7
DP - DeepDyve
ER -