Four Stages of "Real Women"

I was watching Etv. The epsiode was The Soup discusses dating shows. They mentioned The Real World and the four stages of the real women on the real world. This involves alcohol.

1. Euphoria (hyper, dancing about, kissing people)
2. Anger (yelling at men)
3. Melancholy (crying alone or crying on a gay guy)
4. Black Out (sleep it off, repeat the next day)

They also discussed Flava of Love, Next...

By the way, I love Giant Chewy Sweet Tarts! Yum.

Work Hours

We could have told them that. Long hours make for a grumpy, stressed out, fatigued resident.

Overworked Medical Interns a Danger to Patients
Study finds mistakes rise as shifts pass the 24-hour mark
-- Robert Preidt

FRIDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Extended work shifts pose a threat to the health and safety of medical interns and the patients they treat, according to a U.S. study of more than 2,700 interns.
The interns took part in a nationwide Internet survey and completed more than 17,000 monthly reports.

Study author Laura Barger of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston analyzed the data to determine the association between extended duration shifts (24 hours or more at a time), reported medical errors, and the interns' self-reported levels of stress.
Compared to months where no extended duration shifts were worked, interns who worked five or more extended duration shifts in a month were seven times more likely to report at least one fatigue-related significant medical error that harmed a patient, and 300 percent more likely to report fatigue-related errors that caused the death of a patient.

Interns who reported a medical error that caused harm to a patient were more than three times as likely to report high stress in that month, the study found.
"These results suggest that extended duration shifts negatively impact patient safety and the well-being of medical interns. (The findings) have important public policy implications for post-graduate medical education and suggest the need for counseling or other care for interns who make medical errors," Barger noted.

The study was presented Wednesday in Minneapolis at SLEEP 2007, the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

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Two studies funded by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health found that shorter shifts for medical interns reduced medical errors.
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SOURCE: American Academy of Sleep Medicine, news release, June 13, 2007
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More Tough Words.

Exasperated.

That word is difficult. Is it an exacerbation? or is it just exasperating?!