I believe there are many benefits to allowing first-year doctors to work 24-hour shifts. First of all it helps to delete some margin of error when doctors switch patients at the end of their 16 hour shifts. When this happens there is a lot of confusion between doctors on what is being done to the patients. Secondly it accumulates first year doctors to having to work these long shifts faster. When they become real time doctors they will be ready for the long and tiring shifts. This also seems to be the only option since the 16 hour shifts have been causing problems. The only problem proposed by this extension is that these doctors can become sleep deprived and it may be harder for them to work. Nevertheless I think this could be a very good improvement for first year doctors.
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