Veazey Brooks, Joanna; Bosk, Charles L. - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 9, pp. 1625-1632
We examine how a policy aimed at improving patient safety by limiting residents’ work hours brought with it an unintended and unexamined consequence: altered socialization due to modified rites of passage during residency that endangered the stereotypical “Surgical Personality” and created...