Surviving medical education--particularly internship and residency--requires a tolerance for brutal sleep deprivation.
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Does medicine select for these people? How does this affect practitioners in other ways?
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@St_Rev How many people fail to complete residency? -
@St_Rev Doctors trying to change it claim it degrades quality of care rather than fails people out. -
@TrivialGravitas I'm aware, I'm asking an unrelated question. -
@St_Rev I'm saying that I think, but don't have enough data, that the answer to your first question is no. -
@TrivialGravitas Looks like 20% for surgery residents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20739854
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