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		Dove on May 5, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Medical error is third biggest cause of death in t... There is a tradeoff, though. A doctor once explained to me that she did 24 hour shifts to minimize the mistakes that can occur when handing a complicated case off to someone else.

thfuran on May 13, 2016 [–]

I think that sort of thing accounts for an extremely tiny minority of too-long shifts in the medical industry.

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