It has been a long tradition in the medical field in the USA for doctors to work extremely long hours, especially 1 choicescontroversy patient residents resident shift (doctors still in training). This issue has been a focus of 2 choicescontroversy patient residents resident shift for nearly forty years, after a 3 choicescontroversy patient residents resident shift named Libby Zion died under the care of a 4 choicescontroversy patient residents resident shift who had been on a 36 hour 5 choicescontroversy patient residents resident shift .

The case itself is controversial, but the parents sued the hospital because the 1 choicesdebatable deprivation attending physician spotlight Residents consecutive had been working for nearly 36 hours straight.

Regardless of the 2 choicesdebatable deprivation attending physician spotlight Residents consecutive issues in the case itself, it put the public 3 choicesdebatable deprivation attending physician spotlight Residents consecutive on doctors working under conditions of sleep 4 choicesdebatable deprivation attending physician spotlight Residents consecutive . Since then, in the USA, the work hour rules have been limited. 5 choicesdebatable deprivation attending physician spotlight Residents consecutive should work no more than 80 hours per week nor 24 6 choicesdebatable deprivation attending physician spotlight Residents consecutive hours on duty.

Compare the rules in the USA to those in the UK and European Union. Doctors there are 4 choicesstandard legal limits specialists shift not allowed concerned professions limits straight controllers to work more then 48 hours a week, nor more than a 13 hour 5 choicesstandard legal limits specialists shift not allowed concerned professions limits straight controllers .

Comparisons can also been made with other 6 choicesstandard legal limits specialists shift not allowed concerned professions limits straight controllers where the public safety is 7 choicesstandard legal limits specialists shift not allowed concerned professions limits straight controllers . Airline Pilots and truck drivers have 8 choicesstandard legal limits specialists shift not allowed concerned professions limits straight controllers . Taxi drivers can’t work more than 12 hours 9 choicesstandard legal limits specialists shift not allowed concerned professions limits straight controllers , and air traffic 10 choicesstandard legal limits specialists shift not allowed concerned professions limits straight controllers can’t work more than 10, and must have a full 9 hours of rest before the start of any shift.

For 4 choicescontinuity traditional critics superior paradigm apply turned over physicians transfer adequate sober consultation , this is something of a God-complex by doctors who feel that the natural laws of sleep deprivation—that apply to all human beings—don’t 5 choicescontinuity traditional critics superior paradigm apply turned over physicians transfer adequate sober consultation to themselves. And also that they are 6 choicescontinuity traditional critics superior paradigm apply turned over physicians transfer adequate sober consultation to the other doctor to whom they must 7 choicescontinuity traditional critics superior paradigm apply turned over physicians transfer adequate sober consultation the patient.

This, however, is an old 8 choicescontinuity traditional critics superior paradigm apply turned over physicians transfer adequate sober consultation . The new paradigm for patient care should be one of teamwork. Where skilled 9 choicescontinuity traditional critics superior paradigm apply turned over physicians transfer adequate sober consultation assist each other, with 10 choicescontinuity traditional critics superior paradigm apply turned over physicians transfer adequate sober consultation sleep, and 11 choicescontinuity traditional critics superior paradigm apply turned over physicians transfer adequate sober consultation , on a patient’s care.