Fewer the working hours made the doctors to do more mistakes. This is happening because even the working hours are reduced there is no increase in sleeping hours so the tiredness and depression in them continues.
The training hours are more to the extent what they can carry on which leads the doctors to patients.
By limiting the working hours residents working fewer hours made twenty percent more mistakes, the workload does not lessen but the amount of time to finish the work does.
This can be maintained by giving residents less time on duty and more time to sleep was supposed to lead to fewer medical errors.
How could fewer hours lead to more errors, interns reported that while they weren’t working as many hours, they were still expected to accomplish the same amount that previous classes had, so they had less time to complete their duties.
Having medical residents work fewer hours should translate into less fatigued doctors and fewer errors.
The pressure may be even greater for residents in many hospitals where the new restrictions on hours were not accompanied by funding to hire new staff to balance the work load.
Some of the cases suffered due to the overload and strain to doctors:
In 1984, 18-year-old Libby Zion, who was admitted to a New York City hospital with fever and convulsions, she was not treated by residents who had more strain. Busy overseeing other patients, the residents didn’t evaluate Zion. Later hours, her fever has soared to 107ºF (41.7ºC) and she went into cardiac arrest and died. The case highlighted the enormous pressures on doctors in training and the need for reform in the way residents were taught.
In 1987, a New York State commission limited the number of hours that doctors could train in the hospital to 80 each week, which was less than the 100-hour-a-week shifts with 36-hour call times that were normal at the time.