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Small schedule change has big health benefits for night-shift docs

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Small schedule change has big health benefits for night-shift docs
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Researchers have found that a simple scheduling change can improve the health and well-being of physicians working overnight shifts.
In a recent study, Matthew Robinson, chair of the emergency medicine department of in the School of Medicine at University of Missouri, examined emergency medicine physicians who regularly rotate between shifts. Rather than working their usual 10 PM to 6 AM shift during night rotations, physicians worked from 8 PM to 4 AM.
Robinson found that the earlier schedule l

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