Thinking Critically About Rules and Patient-Care Scenarios
Clinical Case
When Resident Duty Hours and Patient Care Collide
Commentary by Michael Suk, MD, JD, MPHDr Grace Pointe is a third-year internal medicine resident in a medium-sized rural teaching hospital. She has been the sole resident on the cardiology service for the past 3½ weeks and has earned a great deal of respect from her attending physicians for her advanced clinical judgment and dedication to patient care.
Grace has enjoyed the rotation tremendously but has been extreme