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Medicine mulls a trade-off between a reduction in medical errors and less time for medical training.
During his first year at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, every medical mistake Christian Ruff, MD, and his fellow interns made in the intensive care unit was tracked as part of the Harvard Work Hours, Health and Safety Study.
Although most mistakes were caught before patients were harmed, the mistakes themselves were preventable, researchers say, because it was primarily fatigue that caused the interns to make them.