Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery

by Katherine C. Kellogg

Book Overview

In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate Medical Education mandated a reduction in resident work hours to eighty per week. Over the course of two and a half years spent observing residents and staff surgeons trying to implement this new regulation, Katherine C. Kellogg discovered that resistance to it was both strong and successful-in fact, two of the three hospitals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226430030
• ISBN13: 9780226430034
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"