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Legal marijuana is taking a bite out of drug carte...
You introduce working 19 hours without sleep before surgery as a hyperbolic excess that should get one fired.
In fact, it appears to be routine and required of medical residents in the US. Which is ridiculous.
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on March 7, 2016
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It seems medical students and their teachers can't apply basic notions of healthy living on themselves. I always wondered why they agree to stay up to 24 or 36 hours per shift. Can't they have 8 hour long work shifts?
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In fact, it appears to be routine and required of medical residents in the US. Which is ridiculous.