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ing opportunities for residents. “My fear is that the potential repercussions of reduced resident work hour shifts will not be seen for years, at which point we are going to have all these doctors who trained under these regulations,” Charap said. “We are going to see whether they are able to live up to the challenges placed on them as physicians in the real world.” The substantial cost of implementing the changes also is likely to be a major sticking point. The IOM committee argued that $1.7 billion annually is less than 0.5% of what Medicare spends each year on care for older individuals and that the proposed changes may help reduce the substantial costs stemming from medical errors. Johns urged the public and private entities that fund graduate medical education to meet and discuss how to cover these costs. “We believe the additional $1.7 billion a year is a necessary investment in improved patient safety and better health outcomes,” Johns said.
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