TY  - JOUR
T1  - MIstreatment and maladaptations during medical internship
AU  - Rockwell DA
Y1  - 1998/08/26
N1  - 10-1001/pubs.JAMA-ISSN-0098-7484-280-8-jbk0826
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 699
EP  - 700
VL  - 280
IS  - 8
N2  - 
To the Editor.—Buried in Dr Daugherty and colleagues'1 interesting article are numbers that are profoundly disturbing. The 1274 interns apparently identified at least 134 colleagues impaired by alcohol and 44 colleagues impaired by prescription drug abuse or illegal drug use in the course of a single year. The authors' minimization of these findings "alcohol use as a reason for impairment was reported by less than 15%. . . . While prescription drug abuse and illegal drug use were cited by only 5.0%" underscores the medical profession's denial of this serious problem. Lack of sleep pales in comparison with these data, especially in view of the reported number of hours worked (56.9 hours), a number comparable to hours worked by the average clinician in practice.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10-1001/pubs.JAMA-ISSN-0098-7484-280-8-jbk0826
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10-1001/pubs.JAMA-ISSN-0098-7484-280-8-jbk0826
ER  -