Woman Who Weaves

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There's a lot of uproar about the fact that the maximum shift for first year residents (interns) has been extended to 24 hours again.  I was an intern twice (don't ask) and worked first under no restrictions and then under the 80 hour work week.  I had a variety of chief residents who fiddled the schedule in various ways. I did a number of 36 hour shifts, they suck.  Unless you are one of those people who is wired that way, they are complete misery.  I found out later that a lot of my fellow residents used adderall to get through. Twenty-four hours, when you were done at morning sign out, was not that bad.  You had a whole day, often during the workweek, to use as you wanted.  I tended to spend the morning in the hospital finishing up paperwork, left at noon as directed and went home, did laundry and went to bed at 7 or 8  pm and slept through to the next morning.  If the night had been horrible, I would go straight home, shower, put on my jam...