Many sane minds would argue that, but the ACGME is actively arguing otherwise. They are actively building rules that allow residents to work longer shifts (up to 28 hours straight) while claiming these rules improve patient safety.

Patient hand-offs between shifts tends to introduce errors. Instead of finding ways to improve hand-offs, the ACGME is simply trying to have fewer of them.

These are supposed to be some of the "top minds" in medicine and that's the best they can come up with.