ADVISORY/Petition Claims Overworked Medical Residents Face Health Risks.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2001 TOPIC: A petition filed by Public Citizen, a consumer and health advocacy group, along with the Committee of Interns and Residents, the American Medical Student Association and others is calling for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to set limits on the hours per week in which medical residents work. According to an article by The Associated Press, many residents reportedly work from 95 to 136 hours per week, which puts them at risk of depression and auto accidents. The petition suggests that the work week for residents be limited to 80 hours. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Dr. Mark D. Crockett, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president of Ibex Healthdata Systems, Inc., is a board-certified board-certified adjective Referring to a US or Canadian physician who has 1. Completed 4-8 yrs-of post-medical school residency training, ie a physician who is 'board-eligible' and 2. emergency medicine physician and a candidate fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is the largest organization of emergency physicians in the United States. It was founded in 1968 and is now headquartered in Dallas,Texas. . Dr. Crockett also served as an advisor for online projects to the Great Lakes Great Lakes, group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, creating a natural border between the United States and Canada and forming the largest body of freshwater in the world, with a combined surface area of c.95,000 sq mi (246,050 sq km). Center for Occupational Safety and Health, a World Health Organization group. Dr. Crockett is also a well-regarded author within the field of emergency medicine and toxicology toxicology, study of poisons, or toxins, from the standpoint of detection, isolation, identification, and determination of their effects on the human body. Toxicology may be considered the branch of pharmacology devoted to the study of the poisonous effects of drugs. and has been published in multiple journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal, published 48 times per year by the American Medical Association. JAMA is the most widely circulated medical journal in the world. and Academic Emergency Medicine. PR: Rod Neaveill (rneaveill@ibex-systems.com; 847/993-2200). Professor Robert G. Radwin, of the University of Wisconsin, can discuss occupational safety and occupational health. 608/263-6596; 608/262-1234 (University PR Phone) Morton F. Arnsdorf, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago and was Chief of the Section of Cardiology cardiology Medical specialty dealing with heart diseases and disorders. It began with the 1749 publication by Jean Baptiste de Sénac of contemporary knowledge of the heart. Diagnostic methods improved in the 19th century, and in 1905 the electrocardiograph was invented. for 9 years. He received his housestaff training at the University of Chicago, his cardiology training at the Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and served in the United States Air Force United States Air Force (USAF) Major component of the U.S. military organization, with primary responsibility for air warfare, air defense, and military space research. It also provides air services in coordination with the other military branches. U.S. before returning to the University of Chicago as a member of the Faculty. Dr. Arnsdorf is also quite familiar with the business of medicine as a result of being the Chief of Cardiology during the time when medicine in America was changing rapidly with the role of government in health research and policy and as a member of several study sections and advisory panels of the National Institutes of Health and other governmental organizations. 773/702-6153; 773/702-1234 (University PR Phone) ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. 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