Doctors' working hours: can the medical profession afford to let the courts decide what is reasonable?

@article{Nocera1998DoctorsWH,
  title={Doctors' working hours: can the medical profession afford to let the courts decide what is reasonable?},
  author={Antony Nocera and Diana Strange Khursandi},
  journal={Medical Journal of Australia},
  year={1998},
  volume={168}
}
The pattern of long work days followed by nights interrupted by calls is regarded as normal by the medical profession. These calls are, at best, simple telephone calls. At worst, they may entail returning to the hospital several times a night. Few other workers do this, and data on its long-term effects are entirely lacking. Being on-call impairs sleep even when there are no calls, II and as five or six hours' uninterrupted sleep is needed to avoid performance decrement'? perpetual or frequent… 
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