New Study Yields Surprising Results

Sleepy Medical Interns Called a Road Hazard

A study published last fall, also in the New England Journal, found that interns who spent every third night working in the intensive care unit made 36% more medical errors than interns who kept less onerous schedules. They also made serious diagnostic errors 5.6 times as often as their well-rested counterparts, the study found.

It was, however, later revealed that the researchers had “pulled an all-nighter” in order to complete the study and therefore the results likely contained “serious diagnostic errors.”