First-year doctors will be allowed to work 24-hour shifts starting in July

The controversial decision ends the latest phase in a decades-old discussion over how to balance physician training with the safety and needs of patients whose care is sometimes handled by young, sleep-deprived doctors — a practice that a consumer group and a medical students’ organization oppose as dangerous.

By Lenny Bernstein

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