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Re:Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S. by stephencanon on Monday July 29, 2013 @05:15AM (#6120045)
Our residents do work 80+ hour weeks. Until recently, it was 100+ hours.
Re:Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S. by aioprisan on Monday July 29, 2013 @06:47AM (#6120240)
It's still ~100 hours a week: 6 days at up to 16 hours = 96 hours/week.
Re:Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S. by stephencanon on Monday July 29, 2013 @07:50AM (#6120431)
There’s a cumulative “in-hospital” time cap of 80 hours/week (88 for neurosurgical residents). In practice, however, this means that (a) the cap is regularly broken or (b) residents end up doing preparatory study, reading papers, doing research, etc outside of the hospital to remain under the cap. They are still working more or less the same hours.

Also, the 16 hour/day rule is only for interns, IIRC. Resident shifts can go up to 30(?) hours.