Working More Than 90 Hours Per Week May Be Tied To Higher Levels Of Depression In First-Year Physicians, Study Indicates

Healio (10/31, Rhoades) reports, “Working more than 90 hours per week was associated with higher levels of depression in first-year physicians,” investigators concluded after analyzing “data on 17,082 physicians who, from 2009 to 2020, were recruited into the Intern Health Study, a sampling of physicians in their first postgraduate year.” The findings were published online in a research letter in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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— “Longer work weeks increase depression risk in first-year physicians “Shenaz Bagha, Healio, October 31, 2022

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