Sleepless at the scalpel.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills

Johns Hopkins Hospital was recently found to be violating a new rule limiting residents' work-weeks to 80 hours and shifts of no more than 24 hours. If a great institution like Hopkins is violating the policy, imagine what is going on at other hospitals. What is so pathetic is that the reform is actually absurdly modest--80 hours a week and 24-hour shifts are still too much to produce alert physicians.

A recent article by...